Selling Art in Georgian London
Author | : Louise Lippincott |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300030709 |
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Author | : Louise Lippincott |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300030709 |
Author | : Fiona St. Aubyn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Architecture, Georgian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kate Retford |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1501337300 |
For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.
Author | : Lucy Inglis |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0670920150 |
In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of what life could be. Peek into the gilded drawing rooms of the aristocracy, walk down the quiet avenues of the new middle class, and crouch in the damp doorways of the poor. But watch your wallet - tourists make perfect prey for the thriving community of hawkers, prostitutes and scavengers. Visit the madhouses of Hackney, the workshops of Soho and the mean streets of Cheapside. Have a coffee in the city, check the stock exchange, and pop into St Paul's to see progress on the new dome. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way. It investigates the legacies they left us in architecture and art, science and society, and shows the making of the capital millions know and love today. 'Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew' Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund 'Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts. A great read from a talented new historian' Independent 'Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There's much to treasure here' Londonist 'Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London' London Historians In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex- at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book.
Author | : Wendy Wassyng Roworth |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vic Gatrell |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802716024 |
Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitudes toward sex, celebrity, and ridicule.
Author | : Sir Albert Edward Richardson |
Publisher | : Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Desmond Shawe-Taylor |
Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This is a study of portrait painting and what the paintings tell about 18th-century social history. The author's aim is to introduce the 18th century portrait according to the sitter and to interpret the ideas and meanings contained in the portrait to show what they tell about contemporary society and culture. The artists chosen from a wide range of sources show portrait painting at its high point in the history of British art. They include Reynolds, Kneller, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Lely, Ramsay, Raeburn, Romney and Stubbs along with less well-known painters.
Author | : Richard Wendorf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In this bold new study, Wendorf compares two arts--biography and portrait-painting--that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical connections have remained unexplored. Reassessing the great age of English portraiture--from the arrival of Van Dyck to the publication of Boswell's Life of Johnson--Wendorf reveals that, despite their obvious differences, visual and verbal portraits often shared similar assumptions about the representation of historical character. Rooted in modern theory devoted to the comparison of literature and painting and to the problem of representation, the book examines each form of portraiture in terms of the other, bringing into discussion such writers as Izaak Walton, John Evelyn, John Aubrey, Roger North, Goldsmith, Johnson, Mrs. Piozzi, Boswell, and such artists as Van Dyck, Lely, Samuel Cooper, Jonathan Richardson, Hogarth, and Reynolds.