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Beefsteak Club
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Beefsteak Club is the name or nickname of several 18th- and 19th-century male dining clubs in Britain and Australia that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig concepts of li
The present-day Beefsteak Club, Irving Street, London
The present-day Beefsteak Club, Irving Street, London
Badge of the Sublime Society: a gridiron and the motto "Beef and Liberty"
Badge of the Sublime Society: a gridiron and the motto "Beef and Liberty"
1793 press report – "Club" and "Society" are used interchangeably
1793 press report – "Club" and "Society" are used interchangeably
Dining room at the Lyceum, used by the Sublime Society, restored by Henry Irving. The kitchen is at the rear, beyond the gridiron-shaped grating.
Dining room at the Lyceum, used by the Sublime Society, restored by Henry Irving. The kitchen is at the rear, beyond the gridiron-shaped grating.
Kit-Cat Club
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The Kit-Cat Club was an early 18th-century English club in London with strong political and literary associations. Members of the club were committed Whigs. They met at the Trumpet Tavern in London an
Beefsteak Club
…Beef-Steak Clubb or Honourable Beef-Steak Club) seems to have been that founded in about 1705 in London. It was started by some seceders from the Whiggish Kit-Cat Club, "desirous of proving substantial beef was as prolific a food for an English wit as pies and custards for a Kit-cat beau." The actor Richard Estcourt…
The Trumpet, Shire Lane, Temple Bar, in 1778
The Trumpet, Shire Lane, Temple Bar, in 1778
Sir John Vanbrugh in Godfrey Kneller's kit-cat portrait
Sir John Vanbrugh in Godfrey Kneller's kit-cat portrait
Mezzotint title page from the Kit Cat Club portraits by John Faber the Younger, 1735. Chaloner Smith 1883; British Mezzotinto portraits from the intro
Mezzotint title page from the Kit Cat Club portraits by John Faber the Younger, 1735. Chaloner Smith 1883; British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century # 208. British Museum
Mezzotint portrait of Jacob Tonson by John Faber the Younger after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1733. Chaloner Smith 1883; British Mezzotinto portraits from t
Mezzotint portrait of Jacob Tonson by John Faber the Younger after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1733. Chaloner Smith 1883; British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century # 208.43. British Museum