Download or read book The Country House Library written by Mark Purcell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners and librarians, the book features fascinating information on acquisition bordering on obsession, the process of designing library architecture, and the care (and neglect) of collections. The author also disputes the notion that these libraries were merely for show, arguing that many of them were profoundly scholarly, assembled with meticulous care, and frequently used for intellectual pursuits. For those who love books and the libraries in which they are collected and stored, The Country House Library is an essential volume to own.
Download or read book Designing Women written by Tita Chico and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room embodies contradictory connotations, linked to the eroticism and theatricality of the playhouse tiring-room as well as to the learning and privilege of the gentleman's closet.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Part of the Superlatively Elegant and Magnificent Household Furniture French Plate Pier and Chimney Glasses of Signal Magnitude and Perfection Chandeliers and Lustres a Superbe Organ Built by Crang Gobelin Tapestry in Fine Preservation Marble Groups and Busts Antique Bronzes Pictures and a Variety of Rare Curious and Valuable Effects written by Mr. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the Late Right Hon Lord Rutherfurd written by Andrew Rutherfurd (Lord Rutherfurd.) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tastemakers written by Diana Davis and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.
Download or read book Auction catalogue books of Benjamin R Haydon 5 to 6 August 1846 written by Nutter (London) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Account of a Collection of several thousand Bills Accounts and Inventories illustrating the History of Prices between the years 1650 and 1750 presented to the Smithsonian Institution Washington by J O H Thick paper written by afterwards HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS HALLIWELL (James Orchard) and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Account of a Collection of Several Thousand Bills Accounts and Inventories Illustrating the History of Prices Between the Years 1650 and 1750 written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A catalogue of the particulars of the dwelling house near old Bethlem of sir Joseph Eyles likewise all the household and other furniture to which is added the collection of Edward Jeffryes which will be sold by auction written by sir Joseph Eyles and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Language of the Walls and a Voice from the Shop Windows Or The Mirror of Commercial Roguery written by James Dawson Burn and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prose of Things written by Cynthia Sundberg Wall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object—a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. Wall examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs to highlight the thickening descriptions of domestic interiors. Considering the prose works of John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, David Hume, Ann Radcliffe, and Sir Walter Scott, The Prose of Things is the first full account of the historic shift in the art of describing.
Download or read book Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
