British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections
Author: Christopher Wright
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 950
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300117301

This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Imperial War Museum

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Imperial War Museum
Author: Public Catalogue Foundation
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This catalogue reveals all the oil paintings from the Museum's various locations around the country 1,870 works in total. This includes a significant body of work by Connard, Knight, Lavery, the Nashes, Nevinson, Orpen and Weight.

Victorians Against the Gallows

Victorians Against the Gallows
Author: James Gregory
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857721062

By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding the question of capital punishment. Unease was expressed in various forms, including efforts at outright abolition. Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory here examines abolitionist strategies, leaders and personnel. He locates the 'gallows question' in an imperial context and explores the ways in which debates about the gallows and abolition featured in literature, from poetry to 'novels of purpose' and popular romances of the underworld. He places the abolitionist movement within the wider Victorian worlds of philanthropy, religious orthodoxy and social morality in a study which will be essential reading for students and researchers of Victorian history.

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Hampshire

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Hampshire
Author: Sonia Roe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781904931188

All the publicly owned oil paintings in Southampton and the Isle of Wight have been brought together in this comprehensive volume.

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Dundee

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Dundee
Author: Magnus Linklater
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781904931843

This Dundee volume reveals all the oil paintings in public ownership in the city of Dundee. The two main collections in this catalogue are in The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum and the University of Dundee. The McManus holds an excellent collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century Scottish art and the University of Dundee collections include Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and the Tayside Medical History Museum Art Collection. Other collections in the city include Dundee Heritage Trust and NHS Tayside.