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Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage: United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14, pages 61-91, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1961 — John Shaqi

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Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage: United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14, pages 61-91, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1961

Name: Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage: United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14, pages 61-91, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1961
Author: Roth, Rodris

Roth, Rodris

Tea -- United States; United States -- Social life and customs -- 18th century

_The Squire's Tea._ By Benjamin Wilson, English. Reproduced
          in _Antiques_, October 1951, vol. 60, p. 310.

 1775

          _A Society of Patriotic Ladies_ (fig. 3). Engraving published
          by R. Sayer and J. Bennet, London. Print and Photograph
          Division, Library of Congress.

 1777

          _The Old Maid_ (fig. 14). English. Print and Photograph
          Division, Library of Congress.

 1780 ca.

          _The Tea Party._ By William Hamilton, English. Reproduced in
          _Art in America_, May 1954, vol. 42, p. 91 (advertisement).

 1782

          _Conversazioni_ (fig. 4). By W. H. Bunbury, English. Print
          and Photograph Division, Library of Congress.

 1785 ca.

          _The Auriol Family_ [_in India_]. By John Zoffany, English.
          Reproduced in Manners and Williamson, _John Zoffany, R. A._,
          plate facing p. 110.

 1786

          _Dr. Johnson Takes Tea at Boswell's House._ By Thomas
          Rowlandson, English. Reproduced in Charles Cooper, _The
          English Table in History and Literature_, London, 1929, plate
          facing p. 150.

 1790 ca.

          _Black Monday or the Departure for School._ Engraved by J.
          Jones after Bigg, English. Reproduced in _Antiques_,
          September 1953, vol. 64, p. 163 (advertisement).

 1792

          _Tea at the Pantheon._ By Edward Edwards, English. Reproduced
          in William Harrison Ukers, _The Romance of Tea_, New York,
          1936, plate facing p. 214.

 1806

          _Mrs. Calmes_ (fig. 15). By G. Frymeier, American. Reproduced
          in _Antiques_, November 1950, vol. 58, p. 392.

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                               FOOTNOTES


Footnote 1:

  Claude C. Robin, _New Travels through North America: in a Series of
  Letters ... in the Year 1781_, Boston, 1784, p. 23.

Footnote 2:

  _Mercurius Politicus_, September 23-30, 1658.

Footnote 3:

  Edward Wenham, "Tea and Tea Things in England," _Antiques_, October
  1948, vol. 54, p. 264.

Footnote 4:

  Samuel Sewall, _Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729_, reprinted in
  _Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society_, 1879, ser. 5,
  vol. 6, p. 253.

Footnote 5:

  John Marshall Phillips, _American Silver_, New York, 1949, p. 76.

Footnote 6:

  Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, _New Travels in the United States
  of America Performed in 1788_, London, 1794, p. 80.

Footnote 7:

  Peter Kalm, _The America of 1750. Peter Kalm's Travels in North
  America_, edited and translated by Adolph B. Benson, New York, 1937,
  vol. 1, p. 346, vol. 2, p. 605.

Footnote 8:

  Baron Cromot du Bourg, "Journal de mon Séjour en Amérique," _Magazine
  of American History_ (1880-1881), quoted in Charles H. Sherrill,
  _French Memories of Eighteenth-Century America_, New York, 1915, p.
  155.

Footnote 9:

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Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage: United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14, pages 61-91, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1961

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