English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art
Randall Davies's 1907 survey of eighteenth-century English social life through paintings and drawings, published by Seeley in London and E.P. Dutton in New York for art-minded general readers. Halftone plates after Hogarth, Rowlandson and their contemporaries show conversation pieces, crowded assembly rooms and satirical group scenes, offering period costume, interiors and multi-figure staging in soft monochrome tone.
