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Octaves were dinner-parties held by Sir Henry Thompson, Bart., Professor of Surgery at University College, London, at his house 35 Wimpole Street, at which eight courses, accompani...

In the early 1770s Johann Zoffany was commissioned by Queen Charlotte to paint the Tribuna of the Uffizi. The painter left for Florence in 1772 and returned eight years later in 17...