Author: Melanie Doderer-Winkler
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN: 9780300186420
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Drawing on primary sources such as commemorative prints, newspaper accounts, and diary entries, this book investigates just how essential these fanciful designs were in creating events with lasting impact and popular appeal. The author also delves into the various materials used for construction and embellishment: applications of sugar, sand, marble dust, or chalk lent lustre and colour to surfaces, while stand-alone firework temples and temporary reception rooms were often crafted of little more than wood, canvas, paint, and paste.
Author: Cynthia Cooper
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. ; Hull, Quebec : Goose Lane Editions and Canadian Museum of Civilization
ISBN: 9780864921871
Category : Balls (Parties)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The awestruck press thrilled all of Canada with reports of the Earl of Dufferins 1876 fancy dress ball at Rideau Hall. Twenty years later, the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen not only topped Dufferins extravaganza and catered to a new taste: at their Historical Fancy Dress Ball, guests promenaded as important characters from Canadian history. The next year, in Toronto, their Victorian Era Ball feted Queen Victorias diamond jubilee by celebrating in costume the progress of her reign and the technological wonders of the century to come. In 1898, the Aberdeens induced Montreals French and English high society to act out the ideal of national unity. Cynthia Cooper tells the stories of these four vice-regal balls, the costumes, and the optimistic nation-builders who disguised frivolity as historical research and chose costumes that allowed sexual display scandalous in any other setting. The reporters on the fringes of each event form a gushing Greek chorus, and photos by Notman and Topley show la crème de la crème of young Canada in all its finery.
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Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Author: Edmund Yates
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Author: Isaac Disraeli
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Author: Nathaniel Holmes
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Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Author: John Heneage Jesse
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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