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  • Academies

    These paintings hang in the Court Room of the Foundling Hospital, together with views of (...)

  • Space and Emotions

    The use of Toponyms in Pride and Prejudice 1. Space and Emotions 2. Places and Spaces 3. (...)

  • Panorama

    Norden’s Panorama
    Baker’s London Panorama
    Girtin’s panorama
    Girtin’s panorama - Animations (...)

  • Wide angle

    The field of vision broadens towards wide angle views.
    Paul and Thomas Sandby, View from the (...)

  • Perspective

    Oblique perspective
    Height of spectator viewpoint
    Beer Street and Gin Lane
    Beer Street (...)

  • Companion pictures

    To suggest the multiple perspectives of a cityscape , some paintings were planned as pairs (...)

  • Framing effects

    Camera obscura
    The Thames seen through an Arch of Westminster Bridge
    Westminster Bridge (...)

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  • Literature

    The cities had a flourishing literary life :
    London was the home of numerous literary (...)

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  • Music

    Domestic music
    Chamber music
    Harpsichord music
    Concert life
    The Musical Society of (...)

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  • Painting

    Painters and painting Painting the cities The pictorial field of vision and the optical (...)

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  • Artists’ London

    The world of art in London The painters’view of LondonLondonCulture

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  • The world of art in London

    Painters’ houses are mostly to be found near Leicester Fields and in neighbouring Soho ; some (...)

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