Author: Messrs. Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Catalogue of an Important Collection of Objects of Art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Property of Humphrey W. Cook ... Being a Portion of the Celebrated Collection Formed by the Late Sir Francis Cook ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... at Their Great Rooms ... on Tuesday, July 7, 1925 ...
Author: Messrs. Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Catalogue of an Important Collection of Objects of Art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogue of an Important Collection of Objects of Art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance the Property of Humphrey W. Cook, Esq and Removed from 8 Cadogan Square SW, Being a Portion of the Celebrated Collection Formed by the Late Sir Francis Cook Bart which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Christie, Manson and Woods at Their Great Rooms 8 King Street, St James's Square London on Tuesday, July 7 1925 and Three Following Days at One O'clock Precisely
Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Illustrated History of Furniture
Author: Frederick LitchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer
Author: Fonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline DakersPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891
Author: Ireland) Trinity College (DublinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A.
Author: Walter ThornburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850
Author: Mark WestgarthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000050629
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815–1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity markets. Set against the recent ‘art market turn’ in scholarly literature, this volume examines the role, activities, agency and influence of antique and curiosity dealers as they emerged in the opening decades of the nineteenth century. This study begins at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when dealers began their wholesale importations of historical objects; it closes during the 1850s, after which the trade became increasingly specialised, reflecting the rise of historical museums such as the South Kensington Museum (V&A). Focusing on the archive of the early nineteenth-century London dealer John Coleman Isaac (c.1803–1887), as well as drawing on a wide range of other archival and contextual material, Mark Westgarth considers the emergence of the dealer in relation to a broad historical and cultural landscape. The emergence of the antique and curiosity dealer was part of the rapid economic, social, political and cultural change of early nineteenth-century Britain, centred around ideas of antiquarianism, the commercialisation of culture and a distinctive and evolving interest in historical objects. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, histories of collecting, museum and heritage studies and nineteenth-century culture.
In Search of Sun and Shadow
Author: David WoottonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781905738922
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description