The Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Art: Ten British Pictures 1740 - 1840
by Wark, Robert R
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- Fine
- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0873281853
- ISBN 13
- 9780873281850
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About This Item
London : Huntingdon Library / University of Washington Press, 2001. Third Printing. Softcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover in fine condition with minimal handling wear to wrappers and uncreased spine. Contents clean, tight and white without bookplates, inscriptions or other markings. xiii, 135 pp; lavishly illustrated, mostly in colour. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. "The ten pictures presented here offer vivid proof of the richness and versatility of British painting during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. All are in the Huntingdo collection, and in discussing them the author has brought into perspective a fascinating period in European art." The pictures are: Hogarth's 'Bishop Hoadly'; Gainsborough's 'The Blue Boy'; Reynolds' 'Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse'; Lawrence's 'Pinkie'; Rowlandson's 'Mrs. Siddons Rehearsing'; Blake's 'Satan, Sin, and Death'; Wilson's 'River Scene with Bathers'; Gainsborough's ;The Cottage Door'; Constable's 'View on the Stour near Dedham'; Turner's 'Grand Canal, Venice'.
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- Bookseller
- Bath and West Books (PBFA) (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004738
- Title
- The Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Art: Ten British Pictures 1740 - 1840
- Author
- Wark, Robert R
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0873281853
- ISBN 13
- 9780873281850
- Publisher
- Huntingdon Library / University of Washington Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Art; Art History; Danish Painters; Danish Artists; Denmark
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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