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What the papers say: How does the United Kingdom press treat water fluoridation and does it matter?
âThe small Domestic & conversation styleâ: David Allan and Scottish portraiture in the Late Eighteenth Century
This article focuses on two conversation pieces by the eighteenth-century Scottish artist David Allan: The Family of the 4th Duke of Atholl (1780) and Sir James Grant (1785). One of the most vital characteristics of the conversation piece was its delineation of customary detail: the âmode & manner of the time & habitsâ, to use George Vertueâs phrase. These paintings feature detailed description of Highland costume, Highland custom and Highland country â and, in so doing, provide invaluable insights into the rapidly evolving, increasingly romanticized image of the Highlands in the later eighteenth century. They offer distinct views into the changing connotations of tartan and Highland custom in the decades following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, the place of these cultural nationalist signs within the âconcentric loyaltiesâ of Scots in this period and the relationship between Highlandism and values associated with the Union