Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Valuable Ceramics, Works of Art, Furniture; from the Collection Formed by the Late Greville Douglas
Valuable Ceramics, Works of Art, Furniture; from the Collection Formed by the Late Greville Douglas
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalogue of Valuable Ceramics, Works of Art, Furniture, Etc. from the Collection Formed by the Late Greville Douglas,.. Sold by Order of the Executors of His Widow the Late Lady Margaret Douglas... Fine Old English & French Furniture, Oriental Carpets...
Author: Greville DouglasCatalogue of Valuable Ceramics, Works of Art, Furniture, from the Collection Formed by the Late Greville Douglas
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Computer
Author: Herbert R. J. GroschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Delaware
Author: Carol E. HoffeckerPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393332315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography
Author: D. CarmentPublisher:
ISBN: 9780980457810
Category : Northern Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This revised edition of the Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography brings together the entries from the original three volumes, published in 1990, 1992 and 1996. The Dictionary spans the period from the early British and French explorers of the Northern Territory coast to the mid 1990s and aims to provide a broad reflection of life in the Territory rather than focusing on eminent public figures. In some cases this has meant that some subjects are included about whom relatively little is known. Authors come from the widest possible cross-section of the community and there is a considerable range of writing styles. The principal interest of the volume is the Northern Territory. In all cases, the Territory experience of subjects, however eminent they might have been elsewhere, is thus the focal point of entries.This volume is available on CD (ISBN 9780980384697) and in this limited paperback edition.
Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284346
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World presents new Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries C.E. from Egypt and Palestine and explores its rich potential for historical analysis.