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Download or read book Boughton House written by Tessa Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boughton House in Northamptonshire is a house of contrasts. Its magnificent, and at the same time, formal exterior in the French style gives little hint of the rambling Tudor manor house embedded within. Involvement with the law and politics at the highest level generated the wealth of its founders and builders, but enlightened artistic patronage and a strong aesthetic sense have been characteristic of many generations of the Dukes of Montagu and of Buccleuch since the 17th century. This book looks at the house and its furnishings.
Book Synopsis Saving Britain's Art Treasures by : N. J. McCamley
Download or read book Saving Britain's Art Treasures written by N. J. McCamley and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains for the first time the full story of the wartime adventures of Britain's greatest art treasures. At first the pictures and other artifacts were distributed amongst a number of large country houses. Initially the owners of these houses almost fought one another for the right to house the Treasures. Later, when further accommodation was needed for treasures from the provincial museums, the tables turned and the Office of Works was reduced to bribing owners by promising that they would be spared billetees, and that their houses would be immune from requisitioning. By mid 1940 however, circumstances transpired that made the country houses untenable. German air bases in northern France made the whole of Britain vulnerable. Eventually two deep underground repositories were constructed, one in Wales and one in Wiltshire, and by the end of 1942 virtually all the cultural heritage of the nation was concentrated there. Building and operation of these underground treasure houses did not, however, go smoothly, as described here.
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Download or read book Great Houses and Their Treasures written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections by : Christopher Wright
Download or read book British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections written by Christopher Wright and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Country House Library by : Mark Purcell
Download or read book The Country House Library written by Mark Purcell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners and librarians, the book features fascinating information on acquisition bordering on obsession, the process of designing library architecture, and the care (and neglect) of collections. The author also disputes the notion that these libraries were merely for show, arguing that many of them were profoundly scholarly, assembled with meticulous care, and frequently used for intellectual pursuits. For those who love books and the libraries in which they are collected and stored, The Country House Library is an essential volume to own.
Book Synopsis Country House Treasures of Britain by : Arthur Foss
Download or read book Country House Treasures of Britain written by Arthur Foss and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Country House by : Clive Aslet
Download or read book The American Country House written by Clive Aslet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country House draws on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the lives the buildings served as well as architectural shapes they took. 275 illustrations.
Book Synopsis John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition by : John Cassell
Download or read book John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition written by John Cassell and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes on the Art Treasures at Penicuik House Midlothian by : John Miller Gray
Download or read book Notes on the Art Treasures at Penicuik House Midlothian written by John Miller Gray and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book thoroughly documents the historical and architectural wonder of Scotland, Penicuik House, an 18th-century Palladian mansion built by Sir James Clerk, the 3rd Baronet of the family. This book is of utmost importance to the preservation of the mansion itself, as it is the only surviving account that gave a detailed description of the estate, which was burnt down ten years after this book was published and was only restored to its original state in 2014.
Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Clay-worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The log of the clay worker": v. 100, p. 188-193.
Book Synopsis Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees by : Herman de Bachelle Seebold
Download or read book Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees written by Herman de Bachelle Seebold and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1941, Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees is the definitive guide to the important plantation homes of the Pelican State, as well as the socially and historically prominent families who lived in them. Volume I of the two-volume, boxed set describes structures in several diverse sections of the state, from traditional, Spanish-moss-hung plantations in south Louisiana to the African-inspired structures on the rounds of Melrose Plantation in Natchitoches Parish. The first volume features many rare photographs of historically significant townhomes, plantations, and outbuildings--many no longer extant--and provides detailed genealogical and anecdotal information on a genteel society and lavish lifestyle that is now only a cherished memory. Some of the great houses discussed include D'Estrehan, Tezcuco, Seven Oaks, Parlange, Asphodel, Evergreen, and Rosedown. Volume II traces the history of several important families and features numerous portraits, coats of arms, and archival photographs. It also contains a wealth of genealogical and biographical information about many of the most prominent families in Louisiana history. Some of the family names included are La Frenier, De Livaudais, Forstall, Fortier, Schmidt, S�ghers, Milliken, Parlange, De Brierre, D'Herbigny, Butler, Pipes, Ellis, Percy, Plauch�, Barrow, Bringier, Kenner, Stauffer, Knox, Semmes, Walmsley, Ranlett, Smyth, Sully, De Marigny, De La Ronde, Almonaster, De Dreux, Villere, Beauregard, Matthews, Rathbone, De Buys, Hicky, Duggan, De Macarty, vonPhul, Cade, Du Brocca, Allain, D'Estrehan des Tours, De La Barr�, Koch, Muller, Bruce, Boehm, Seebold, De Bachell�, De Vilbiss, De Beaulieu de Marconnay, Konzelman, Parker, Pitkin, Levert, Ware, Prudhomme, Wilkinson, and Stewart.
Book Synopsis The Parliamentary Debates by : Great Britain. Parliament
Download or read book The Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hand Painted Homes by : Leisa Collins
Download or read book Hand Painted Homes written by Leisa Collins and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, Sixtieth Congress by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Download or read book Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, Sixtieth Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
