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Word: bessborough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rowlandson's energy is infectious. It fairly seethes in images like A Gaming Table at Devonshire House, 1791, where two of the wild aristocratic beauties of the day -- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her sister Lady Bessborough -- preside like maenads over the eddy of faces, dicing table and money, and a lecherous buck offers a woman a purse which, none too subtly, is shaped like a pair of testicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Pursuits of Pleasure | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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