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Author : Robert J. Gemmett
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Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Beckford's Fonthill written by Robert J. Gemmett and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madge Dresser
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848020641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Slavery and the British Country House written by Madge Dresser and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.
Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350452
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
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Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
Author : Caroline Girle Powys ("Mrs. P. L. Powys, ")
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Passages from the Diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys of Hardwick House, Oxon written by Caroline Girle Powys ("Mrs. P. L. Powys, ") and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Younger Fletcher
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Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book English Book Collectors written by William Younger Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520070875
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Fake? written by Mark Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John F. Pile
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856694186
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book A History of Interior Design written by John F. Pile and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology and product design all overlap.
Author : John Nichols
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Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hazlitt
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: A reply to Malthus. The spirit of the age, etc written by William Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Boyd Curtis
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Velazquez and Murillo written by Charles Boyd Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hogarth
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Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book Anecdotes of William Hogarth written by William Hogarth and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Algernon Graves
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Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. written by Algernon Graves and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric A. Willats
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ISBN 13 : 9780951187104
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Streets with a Story written by Eric A. Willats and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Hine
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Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The History of Beaminster written by Richard Hine and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hilary J. Grainger
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ISBN 13 : 9781904965312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Sir Ernest George written by Hilary J. Grainger and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) was one of England's greatest architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He specialised in domestic work and was responsible for beautiful and imaginative houses in both town and country, and with his three successive partners, he carried out over 200 works both in Britain and abroad. He was also a watercolourist of considerable stature whose work in the medium was acclaimed in his own time. This richly illustrated book is the first study of the man and his work and will establish him as one of the major names in his profession. His life and career is fully documented, the buildings are described and a full catalogue of works is provided. A special feature is a study of pupils and assistants who passed through George's office, including several who went on to be famous and successful - Edwin Lutyens, Guy Dawber, J. J. Joass, R. Weir Schultz - and also the first woman to be become a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Ethel Mary Charles. Hilary Grainger is a dean at the London College of Fashion and is the recognised expert on George and his architecture. She is also a leading authority on the architecture of cremation and is the chair of the Victorian Society.
