Author: Thomas JefferysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
“A” Collection Of The Dresses Of Different Nations, Ancient and Modern. Particulary Old English Dresses After The Designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and Others
Author: Thomas JefferysA Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations
Author: A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern
Author: Thomas JefferysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake
Author: Henry TimberlakePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807831263
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This is the first modern scholarly edition of what is considered the most detailed ethnographic account of Cherokee life in the late 18th century. Timberlake•s memoirs describe the months he spent living with the Cherokees then escorting a delegation to London to meet King George III. He provides details of daily life, including ceremonies, games, the role of women, the preparation of food, and the creation of weapons, baskets, and pottery. This edition pairs the original text with extensive footnotes and annotiations, a new introduction, index, and more than 100 illustrations, including artifacts, maps, period artwork, and contemporary artwork.
A Catalogue of Illuminated and Historical Manuscripts and Choice and Valuable Books
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain
Author: Isabelle BaudinoPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000843386
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain. This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.
An Alphabetical Catalogue of Plates, engraved ... after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, French, English, and other schools, which compose the stock of John and Josiah Boydell, etc
Author: John BOYDELL (and BOYDELL (Josiah) Engravers and Printsellers.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Representing China on the Historical London Stage
Author: Dongshin ChangPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135007519
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century—which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last monarchy. The examples show that during this historical period, the stage representations of the country were influenced in turn by Jesuit writings on China, Britain’s expanding material interest in China, the presence of British imperial power in Asia, and the establishment of diasporic Chinese communities abroad. While finding that many of these works may be read as gendered and feminized, Chang emphasizes that the Jesuits’ depiction of China as a country of high culture and in perennial conflict with the Tartars gradually lost prominence in dramatic imaginations to depictions of China’s material and visual attractions. Central to the book’s argument is that the stage representations of China were inherently intercultural and open to new influences, manifested by the evolving combinations of Chinese and English (British) traits. Through the dramatization of the Chinese Other, the representations questioned, satirized, and put in sharp relief the ontological and epistemological bases of the English (British) Self.
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
An alphabetical catalogue of plates, engraved by the most esteemed artists, after the finest pictures and drawings of the Italian, Flemish ... and other schools, which compose the stock of John and Josiah Boydell
Author: John and Josiah BoydellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description