Author: Laurence BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
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A Catalogue of British Historical Medals
A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960
Author: Laurence BrownPublisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN: 9780900652561
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Catalogue of British Historical Medals, 1760-1960
Author: Laurence A. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Vol.1 The accession of George III to the death of William IVvol.2 The reign of Queen Victoriavol.3 The accession of Edward VII to 1960.
A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960, Vol. I
Author: Laurence BrownA Catalogue of British Historical Medals, 1760-1960: The accession of George III to the death of William IV
Author: Laurence A. BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900652561
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
A Catalogue of British Historical Medals 1760-1960
Author: Laurence BrownPublisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN: 9780900652561
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Medals and Plaquettes in the Ulrich Middeldorf Collection at the Indiana University Art Museum
Author: Indiana University, Bloomington. Art MuseumPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253001161
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Spanning six centuries and seven countries, the Middeldorf Collection--assembled by the late eminent art historian Ulrich Middeldorf--provides an extraordinary overview of major personalities and of political, social, cultural, and religious events as depicted in more than 350 medals and plaquettes. Illustrated in full color and accompanied by extensive documentation are commemorations of kings, queens, emperors, poets, composers, physicians, artists, inventors, popes, cardinals, and bishops. Papal annual and jubilee medals and delightful French reliefs from the Belle Époque complement medals from the eras of Louis XIV and XV, Napoleon, and the Risorgimento. Highlights of the collection are Italian medals from the 17th century and later--periods that until recently have received little scholarly attention.
A New History of the Royal Mint
Author: C. E. ChallisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521240260
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
This major study traces the development of English minting from the seventh-century to the twentieth-century.
All That Glittered
Author: Timothy AlbornPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190603534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation's emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy. In this rich and broad-ranging work, Timothy Alborn argues for a close connection between gold and Britain's national identity. Beginning with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which validated Britain's position as an economic powerhouse, and running through the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes in California and Australia, Alborn draws on contemporary descriptions of gold's value to highlight its role in financial, political, and cultural realms. He begins by narrating British interests in gold mining globally to enable the smooth operation of the gold standard. In addition to explaining the metal's function in finance, he explores its uses in war expenditure, foreign trade, religious observance, and ornamentation at home and abroad. Britons criticized foreign cultures for their wasteful and inappropriate uses of gold, even as it became a prominent symbol of status in more traditional features of British society, including its royal family, aristocracy, and military. Although Britain had been ambivalent in its embrace of gold, ultimately it enabled the nation to become the world's most modern economy and to extend its imperial reach around the globe. All That Glittered tells the story of gold as both a marker of value and a valuable commodity, while providing a new window onto Britain's ascendance after the 1750s.
Defining Features
Author: Ludmilla JordanovaPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780231539
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Portraiture as a genre is receiving increased attention at the same time that public curiosity about science is reaching unprecedented levels. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 14 April – 17 September 2000, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, from 27 September – 10 December 2000, Defining Features brings portraiture and science together. Ludmilla Jordanova's lucid text reflects on the nature of the relationship between art, science, medicine and technology by focusing on a selection of portraits that spans more than three centuries. Illustrated with likenesses of such notable personalities as Edward Jenner, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Dorothy Hodgkin, and encompassing a variety of media from paintings and medals to bookmarks and key rings, Defining Features charts changing attitudes towards medical practice and scientific investigation, as well as exploring how notions of gender, heroism, popularization and celebrity have affected the public's understanding of how researchers do their work.