Thomas Hope : Regency designer
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Thomas Hope : Regency designer
Classmark: Bedford Collection E145
Additional creator(s): Hope, Thomas (1769-1831) (Designer); Watkin, David (1941-2018) (Editor); Hewat-Jaboor, Philip (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (Host institution); Victoria and Albert Museum (Host instiution)
Related people: Hope, Thomas, 1769-1831
Publisher: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, by Yale University Press
Publication city: New Haven; London
Date(s): 2008
Language: English
Size and medium: xxiv, 526 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731501
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004797239705181
Description
Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Thomas Hope: Regency Designer', held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, 17 July-16 Nov. 2008, and previously at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 21 Mar.-22 June 2008.
Includes bibliography (pages 506-519), and index.
Ch. 1, European wealth and Ottoman travel / Philip Mansel. -- Ch. 2, The reform of taste in London : Hope's house in Duchess Street / David Watkin. -- Ch. 3, Critic and historian : Hope's writings on architecture, furniture and interior decoration / David Watkin. -- Ch. 4, Thomas Hope's furniture : "a delightful and varied significance of shape and embellishment" / Frances Collard. -- Ch. 5, Fashion à l'antique : Thomas Hope and Regency dress / Aileen Ribeiro. -- Ch. 6, Thomas Hope's metalwork for Duchess Street : "character, pleasing outline and appropriate meaning" / Martin Chapman. -- Ch. 7, The past as a foreign country : Thomas Hope's collection of antiquities / Ian Jenkins.
Ch. 8, Thomas Hope's modern sculptures : "a zealous and liberal patronage of its contemporary profession" / David Bindman. -- Ch. 9, Thomas Hope's contemporary picture collection / Jeannie Chapel. -- Ch. 10, the old master collection of John, Thomas and Henry Philip Hope / Jeannie Chapel. Ch. 11, The Hope family in London : collecting and patronage / Daniella Ben-Arie. -- Ch. 12, The reform of taste in the country : the Deepdene / David Watkin. -- Ch. 13, The tragic mask of Anastasius/Selim : a new introduction to Hope's novel / Jerry Nolan. -- Ch. 14, Hope's philosophical excursions / Roger Scruton. -- Ch. 15, The afterlife of Hope : designers, collectors, historians / Frances Collard and David Watkin. -- Catalogue of the exhibition.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E145: Contains two loose inserts: 1. V&A exhibition guide: Thomas Hope: Regency designer. 2: Exhibition review: Thomas Hope: Regency designer, The Bard Graduate Centre, New York, 17 July - 16 November 2008 by Martin P. Levy.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E145: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/172.
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