99) of Laura Beatty's biography "Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and
Morals". Non-British readers may need to be told that a pantechnicon is a=
large van, especially for moving furniture:
In the second half of the nineteenth century the English artistic
pantechnicon
was grinding through the gear shifts of aestheticism and pre-Raphaeliti=
sm
in
the search for a new language.
Cheers
Eric Van Tassel