British art treasures from Russian Imperial collections in the Hermitage
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Type of record: Book
Title: British art treasures from Russian Imperial collections in the Hermitage
Classmark: Bedford Collection D430
Additional creator(s): Allen, Brian (1952-) (Editor); Dukelʹskai︠a︡, L A (Editor); Phillips, Catherine Alison (1884-) (Translator); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Yale Center for British Art (Sponsoring body); Toledo Museum of Art (Host institution); St. Louis Art Museum (Host institution); Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) (Host institution)
Publisher: Published for the Yale Center for British Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the State Hermitage Museum and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
Publication city: New Haven; London
Date(s): [1996]
Language: English
Size and medium: 328 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721926
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019771047905181
Description
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Yale Center for British Art and held at the Center Oct. 5, 1996-Jan. 5, 1997 and at 3 other art museums, Feb. 13, 1997 through Winter 1997/1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-328).
This sumptuously illustrated book coincides with the bicentenary of the death of the Empress Catherine the Great. It examines the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The distinguished art critic John Russell provides an introduction for this book, and eminent British and Russian scholars offer chapters on such topics as British gardeners and the vogue of the.
English Garden, the sale of Sir Robert Walpole's remarkable collection of Old Master paintings from Houghton Hall to Catherine the Great, British architects at the Imperial court as well as articles on silver, porcelain and engraved gems. This book is the catalogue for the exhibition organised by the Yale Center for British Art and the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg which opens at the Yale Center for British Art in October 1996.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at D430: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on inside front cover: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: GX/7.
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