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Book Synopsis Fonthill Recovered by : Caroline Dakers
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.
Book Synopsis Slavery and the British Country House by : Madge Dresser
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.
Book Synopsis The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer by :
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:
Book Synopsis Life and Works of Ozias Humphry, R.A. by : George Charles Williamson
Download or read book Life and Works of Ozias Humphry, R.A. written by George Charles Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London North of the Thames by : Walter Besant (Sir)
Download or read book London North of the Thames written by Walter Besant (Sir) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sèvres Porcelain by : Carl Christian Dauterman
Download or read book Sèvres Porcelain written by Carl Christian Dauterman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1986 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index of Archaeological Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Squares of London by : Edwin Beresford Chancellor
Download or read book The History of the Squares of London written by Edwin Beresford Chancellor and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monsieur Tonson written by John Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Holland Park Circle by : Caroline Dakers
Download or read book The Holland Park Circle written by Caroline Dakers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - the first major study of the Holland Park Circle of artists, architects, and their patrons - is both an engrossing narrative of their lives, works and influence and a perceptive analysis of the subtle relationships between high Victorian taste and mercantile values."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers by : Frederick James Britten
Download or read book Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers written by Frederick James Britten and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery by : David Richardson
Download or read book Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery written by David Richardson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Britain’s dominant port for the slave trade in the eighteenth century, Liverpool is crucial to the study of slavery. And as the engine behind Liverpool’s rapid growth and prosperity, slavery left an indelible mark on the history of the city. This collection of essays, boasting an international roster of leading scholars in the field, sets Liverpool in the wider context of transatlantic slavery. The contributors tackle a range of issues, including African agency, slave merchants and their society, and the abolitionist movement, always with an emphasis on the human impact of slavery.
Book Synopsis Pugin's Builder by : Patricia Spencer-Silver
Download or read book Pugin's Builder written by Patricia Spencer-Silver and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Myers was one of the great Master Builders of the Victorian Age. Born in 'Hull in 1803, he gained renown as 'Pugin's Builder' and - from his workshops in Hull and then in London - directed a nationwide contracting business. Myers executed many of Pugin's buildings, such as cathedrals in Newcastle, Birmingham, Nottingham and Southwark and the Medieval Court for the Great Exhibition of 1851. In fact Myers undertook work for nearly 100 other architects. This included the original camp at Aldershot, military hospitals and the Staff College, Broadmoor Hospital and restoration work at the Guildhall, the Towers of London, Windsor Castle and extensive work for the Rothschilds. He died in London in 1875. This book, based on original research, provides a fascinating account of mid-19th century England and some of its most interesting figures. It contains hitherto unpublished drawings by Pugin.
Book Synopsis The Flora of Wiltshire by : Donald Grose
Download or read book The Flora of Wiltshire written by Donald Grose and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Writing Britain's Ruins by : Michael Carter (Historian)
Download or read book Writing Britain's Ruins written by Michael Carter (Historian) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the long 18th century (1700-1850), Britain's ruined medieval or "Gothic" abbeys, castles and towers became the objects of intense cultural interest. Turning their attention away from Classical to local and national sites of architectural ruin, antiquaries and topographers began to scrutinize and sketch, record and describe the material remains of the British past, an expression of interest in domestic antiquity that was shared by many contemporary painters, poets, writers, politicians and tourists. This new, highly illustrated book traces the ways in which a selection of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ruins served as the objects of continuous cultural reflection between 1700 and 1850, drawing together essays on the antiquarian, poetic, visual, oral, fictional, dramatic, political, legal and touristic responses that they engendered. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in its approach, Writing Britain's Ruins provides an accessible and engaging account of the ways in which Britain's ruins inspired writers, artists and thinkers during a period of extraordinary cultural richness.
Download or read book Portraits written by Sir Joshua Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Miniaturists by : Basil Somerset Long
Download or read book British Miniaturists written by Basil Somerset Long and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
