Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
European Drawings
Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde
Author: Sir Henry PottingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde is a first-hand account of a journey taken in 1810-11 through parts of present-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq. The author, Henry Pottinger (1789-1856), was a lieutenant in the East India Company who, along with a friend and fellow officer, Captain Charles Christie, volunteered to undertake a mission to the region between India and Persia (present-day Iran), about which the East India Company at that time had little knowledge. The two men journeyed from Bombay (present-day Mumbai) to Sind (present-day southeast Pakistan) from where, disguised as Indians, they traveled overland to Kalat. They were quickly recognized as Europeans, but they were able to continue their journey to Nushki, near the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. There the men separated. Pottinger continued westward to Persia, through Kerman to Shiraz and Isfahan. Christie traveled north from Nushki into Afghanistan, through Helmand to Herat and from there into Persia to Yazd and Isfahan, where he rejoined Pottinger. Christie was directed to remain in Persia, where in 1812 he was killed in a Russian attack. Pottinger returned to Bombay via Baghdad and Basra. The book is in two parts. The first is a detailed account of Pottinger's journey, with observations on climate, terrain, soil, plants and animals, peoples and tribes, customs, religion, and popular beliefs. The second is an introduction to the history and geography of the provinces of Baluchistan and Sind. An appendix reproduces part of the journal kept by Christie on his travels through Afghanistan. The book contains one colored illustration at the front and a large fold-out map after the end of the text. Pottinger went on to have a distinguished career with the East India Company and the British government. In April 1843 he was appointed the first British governor of Hong Kong.
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
Author: Thomas WrightPublisher:
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Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780894682117
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
The Life, Correspondence & Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
Author: Mary Frederica Sophia HerveyPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
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.
Velazquez and Murillo
Author: Charles Boyd CurtisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.
Author: Algernon GravesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth
Author: John NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Author: William Hogarth