Introduction : Gainsborough's Cottage door : sensation and sensibility / Ann Bermingham -- "Innocence and health" : nursing women in Gainsborough's cottage-door paintings / Susan Sloman -- Spectacles for republicans / John Barrell -- Gainsborough's cottage doors : a matter of modernity / Michael Rosenthal -- Gainsborough's cottage-door scenes : aesthetic principles, moral values / Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson -- The early collectors of The cottage door / Dongho Chun -- Gainsborough's Cottage door in Sir John Leicester's 'tent room' / Ann Bermingham -- Magic in the studio / William Vaughan -- Magic, spectacle and the art of de Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon / Iain McCalman