Download or read book A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton House written by Thomas Herbert Earl of Pembroke and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A description of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton house Enlarged from the author s New description of the pictures c at Wilton written by James Kennedy (of Salisbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Description of the Antiquities in Wilton House written by James Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales Or Delineations Topographical Historical and Descriptive of Each County pt 1 Wiltshire written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The beauties of Wiltshire written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beauties of England and Wales written by Britton and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Touring and Publicizing England s Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Jocelyn Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities: increasingly accessible to tourists and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. This book examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions. Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuous 1700s. It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century and an extraordinary and controversial influence in British culture today, country-house tourism is a phenomenon that demands investigation.

Download or read book Wiltshire Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Possession written by Erin Thompson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, smuggling, and forgery that lies at the heart of many private art collections and many of the world's most renowned museums. Enlivened by fascinating personalities and scandalous events, Possession shows how collecting antiquities has been a way of creating identity, informed by a desire to annex the past while providing an illicit thrill along the way. Thompson's accounts of history's most infamous collectors—from the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who stole a life-sized nude Greek statue for his bedroom, to Queen Christina of Sweden, who habitually pilfered small antiquities from her fellow aristocrats, to Sir William Hamilton, who forced his mistress to enact poses from his collection of Greek vases—are as mesmerizing as they are revealing.

Download or read book The Book of British Topography written by John Parker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Museums Their History and Their Use written by David Murray and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography written by William Upcott and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Catalogue of books written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney Volume 4 written by Frances Burney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, covering the years 1780-1781, will be of particular interest to students of Burney as it marks the young author's introduction into the world following the astonishing success of her novel Evelina (1778) and includes her visits to Streatham and her encounters with Hester and Henry Thrale and Dr Johnson. It was an exciting period in her life, which she managed to enjoy despite struggling to repeat her first success while avoiding the often unwelcome attention it brought. But it was also a difficult period in her family life as she dealt with jealous interference by her stepmother, the courtship of her sister Susan by a man she considered untrustworthy, and the misbehaviour of her brothers. Burney's enthusiasm makes the most of her experiences and she describes characters and scenes with all the genius displayed in her novels. Her descriptions contain the four great attributes that distinguish her novels: brilliant handling of detail, total and full recall of conversations characteristic of the speaker, sensibility and empathy for others, and great relish for the ridiculous wherever it occurred.