Author: T. OsbornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Libraries of the Following Eminent and Learned Persons, Deceased, Viz. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Gale ... Roger Gale ... Mr. Henry Wotton ... Dr. Francis Dickens ... Counsellor Stukely ... Counsellor Owen ... Mr. Reynell ... and Several Others. Vol. I. ...
Author: T. OsborneThe Forgotten Fourdrinier
Author: Peter SimpsonPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524658200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book is a meticulously researched but very readable story of Huguenot Paul Fourdriniers journey from being an apprentice in Holland to a highly recognized printmaker in London in the eighteenth century. Paul is almost forgotten and artistically underrated but was an accomplished copper engraver who founded the English Fourdrinier dynasty, which produced the developers of the Fourdrinier papermaking machine and the mother of Cardinal Newman. The reader will be immersed in his world and his connections to aristocrats, artists, and great projects of the ageincluding the development of Palladian neoclassical architecture, the Foundlings Hospital, and the Savannah colony in Georgiaand renowned talents such as the sculptor Rysbrack, painter Hogarth, designer William Kent, and composer George Frederick Handel. As well as the great and powerful, we meet the eccentricsGeorge Vertue, Horace Walpole, the reverend Stephen Duck, Batty Langley, courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips, and the curious affair of Mary Toft, who convinced half the nation that she had given birth to rabbits. This was a time of exciting intellectual development. The combination of copper engraving and printing along with the removal of state censorship and the institution of copyright led to a wave of information and learning not dissimilar to the impact of the Internet. The institution of commercial companies and banks foreshadowed the Industrial Revolution and made possible projects such as Charles Labeyles first Westminster Bridge, the building of Regency Bath and James Gibbs Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, all engraved by Fourdrinier on behalf of their creators. In his shop in Whitehall, he developed master engravings of uncommon size and shapes for customers, including the Earls of Burlington and Pembroke, and engraved for Thomas Wright, the astronomer who first defined galaxies, and William Chambers, who propelled Chinese fashion into Georgian design. This is a fascinating book from beginning to end.
A catalogue of the libraries of the following ... persons, deceased, viz. ... Thomas Gale ... Roger Gale [&c.]. Which will begin to be sold this day at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's, and will continue selling to 1st Jan. 1758
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Author: T. OsborneThe Durham Philobiblon
Author: The Music of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Charles Hubert Hastings ParryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Viennese Period
Author: William Henry HadowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description