Author: Lower Nupend GalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art dealers
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Fine English 18th, 19th and Early 20th Century Original Oil Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings
Author: Lower Nupend GalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art dealers
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain
Author: David KempPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554883474
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Is a famous queen of Britain really bured beneath platform 10 at King's Cross station in London? What is the telephone number of the National Theatre? what is the best place to eat in Worcester? Where is the National Bagpipe Museum? (Hint: not in Scotland) Was Pointius Pilate born in Pitlochry? The answers to these questions and literally thousands more are to be found in David Kemp's fascinating guidebook, The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain. Nowhere else will the discerning traveller find so much diverse and essential information about British culture gathered together in one volume. With the author as your witty and knowledgeable guide, take a tour through nearly fifty cities, from Penzance to Perth, from London to Cardiff and Belfast. Each city section begins with a concise, readable history and a guided walk around the town, planned to take in as many of the significant local sights as can comfortably be included. Next are exhaustive listings, including telephone numbers and addresses, of everything a culturally curious visitor might want to seek out: theatre, art galleries, museums, antique markets, antiquarian and other bookstores, restaurants, lcoal fairs and festivals and more. Finally, under the headings of Artistic Associations and Ephemera, each section concludes with an entertaining collection of local lore, gossip, legend and anecdote.
18th, 19th and 20th Century British Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Catalogue of Selected Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Century Watercolours and Drawings; A Collection of Selected European Oil Paintings
Author: Bonhams (Firm)The Connoisseur
Author: Fine English 18th and 19th Century Drawings and Watercolours
Author: The Great Age of British Watercolours, 1750-1880
Author: Andrew WiltonPublisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791318790
Category : Watercolor painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of expression for some of the Romantic era's greatest artists, among them Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. The painters of the next generation were no less ambitious, and the range of subject-matter and technical inventiveness that was sustained for much of the Victorian period was to set a standard in watercolour painting that was without equal abroad. In this magnificently illustrated survey of the great age of British watercolours, Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles trace the development of attitudes to landscape and to the human figure in the landscape from 1750 to 1880. They show how once the traditional pen and ink drawing and its augmented washes of colour had been abandoned in order to paint directly in watercolours without pen outlines, the way was open for the powerful Romantic landscapes of the following decade and beyond, many of which were painted in the wild mountainous regions of Wales and Scotland. During the nineteenth century, as the gilt-framed exhibition watercolour began to challenge the long-established oil painting in terms of size and in brilliance of colour and effect, the range of subject-matter was broadened to include scenes of country and town life from every part of Britain and, increasingly, from the Continent too. By mid-century the Near East was attracting many of the greatest Victorian watercolourists, including J. E. Lewis, David Roberts and Edward Lear. Other leadingVictorians who regularly worked in watercolour include the Pre-Raphaelite painters John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, and the American-born James McNeill Whistler, all of whom are included in this book.
Fine 18th and 19th Century English Drawings and Watercolours
Author: Phillips Son & Neale (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Painting and Drawing
Author: Tom RobbPublisher:
ISBN: 9781855016934
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
English Watercolor Paintings of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Author: Baron, J. FPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Watercolour painting
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description