The artist and the country house : a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain 1540-1870
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Type of record: Book
Title: The artist and the country house : a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain 1540-1870
Classmark: Bedford Collection D276
Creator(s): Harris, John (1931-)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Sotheby's Publications
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1985
Language: English
Size and medium: xiii, 376 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719642
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019750948705181
Description
Originally published: London : Sotheby's Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 1979.
Includes bibliographical references (page 366) and indexes.
Preface to revised edition -- Introduction: Continental precedents -- 1540 to the Commonwealth -- The Restoration and the Anglo-Netherlandish tradition -- Britannia Illustrata and the Knyff tradition -- The age of the estate cartographers and the garden conversations -- The country house and sporting art: John Wootton, Peter Tillemans and others -- George Lambert and the estate landscape painters -- Canaletto and the architectural topographers -- Gainsborough and the picturesque -- The art of Turner and Constable -- The unsophisticated view.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at D276: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FA/9. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf: Jeremy Griffiths.
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