conversation piece
conversation piece. A portrait showing two or more full-length figures engaged in conversation or other polite social activity, generally in a domestic or landscape setting. Conversation pieces are usually, though not always, fairly small in size. They were especially popular in Britain during the 18th century, when Arthur
Devis, Thomas
Gainsborough, William
Hogarth, Philip
Mercier (the pioneer exponent), and Johann
Zoffany were notable practitioners, but the use of the term is not confined to British painting or to this period.
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John Wilkes Booth: Assassin; Lincoln killer plans kidnap, then decides to murder.(PLUGGED IN - NATIONAL SECURITY)(AMERICA AT WAR)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC); 7/9/2009; 700+ words
; Byline: Kimberly Largent-Christopher, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES John Wilkes Booth - named by his grandfather after England's John Wilkes, a member of Parliament who stood up to King George III in the 1760s - was born on May...
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John Wilkes Booth.(student writing)(Excerpt)
Magazine article from: Writing!; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...clothing, stood out like a dead sunflower in a valley of daisies. John Wilkes Booth: the great conspirator.... He was John Wilkes Booth, the illustrious American actor. John Wilkes Booth, the imminent future of America. John Wilkes Booth...
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By the Hand Of an Assassin; In the Papers of John Wilkes Booth, Clues to an Actor's Most Infamous Work
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/3/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth," which was edited by Taper and John Rhodehamel, a scholar...tragedian" Junius Brutus Booth, who immigrated from...there. His little brother John Wilkes was himself one of the...
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John Wilkes Booth: Let Him Rest in Peace
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/11/1994; 700+ words
; ...given recently to the proposal to exhume the remains of John Wilkes Booth to "prove" a century-old theory that the assassin...mention money, assuming the man in the tomb isn't John Wilkes Booth. Then researchers will know that Booth is in...
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Did John Wilkes Booth survive?: Theory is that Lincoln's killer had escaped to Tennessee.(Company overview)
Newspaper article from: Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN); 2/19/2007; 700+ words
; ...last seen in 1975 convinced two Tennessee men that John Wilkes Booth, the killer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped capture...we could show one way or the other if it could be John Wilkes Booth," he said. Two weeks later, Mr. Hawkes said...
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"Right or Wrong. God Judge Me:" The Writings of John Wilkes Booth. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Civil War History; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Right or Wrong, God Judge Me:" The Writings of John Wilkes Booth. Edited by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper. (Urbana: University...Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 172. $24.95.) John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir by Asia Booth Clark...
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Assassin! More than a century after his death, John Wilkes Booth still stirs curiosity and passion.(CULTURE VULTURE)
Magazine article from: Sarasota Magazine; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But John Wilkes Booth is finally getting...to die for his cause. John Wilkes Booth's story is well known...his famous family. The Booths--his father and brothers...Shakespearean actor ever. John was the youngest brother...
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The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy. By C. Wyatt Evans. (Lawrence...that still seem incredible, soon metamorphosed into the remains of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. To the world at large, Booth's...
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Sic Semper John Wilkes Booth
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/10/2000; ; 700+ words
; When James Judy--who plays John Wilkes Booth in "Reunion, a Musical Epic in Miniature"--comes...pandemonium, Judy dashes across the stage--as did John Wilkes Booth. Understandably, Judy doesn't jump from the...
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Wilkes Booth Home Being Auctioned
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/12/1999; 392 words
; AP Online 08-12-1999 Wilkes Booth Home Being Auctioned BEL AIR, Md...childhood home of presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth is to be auctioned. ``There...was built as a country retreat for John Wilkes Booth's father, Junius...
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Booth, John Wilkes
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Wilkes Booth Born: May 10, 1838 Bel Air, Maryland Died: April 26, 1865 Port...assassin and actor One of the most promising American actors of his time, John Wilkes Booth was a vocal supporter of the South during the Civil War (1861...
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John Wilkes Booth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Wilkes Booth One of the most promising American actors of his time, John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) was the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln...
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Edwin Booth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...The Elder and Younger Booth (1882), is still an...and personal lives of the Booth acting family. A good...Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth, New York: Simon...Schuster, 1992. Tebbel, John William, A certain club...
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Booth, Edwin (Thomas)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Booth, Edwin [Thomas] (1833...of the elder Junius Brutus Booth to become an actor, he was...his father's Richard III. Booth made an unobtrusive New York...Jr. played Cassius, and John Wilkes Booth played Marc Antony...
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Junius Brutus Booth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...His son Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. excelled as a theatrical manager, while Edwin Booth surpassed his father as...of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth . Bibliography: See S. Kimmel, The Mad Booths of Maryland (2d ed. 1969...
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