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Book Extraordinary British Transferware

Download or read book Extraordinary British Transferware written by Rosemary Halliday and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to the attention of the collecting public nearly 300 transferware items from 1780-1840. With more than 1200 images, this book of pottery objects for every conceivable use will appeal to collectors, historians, and dealers.

Book Blue and White Transfer Ware  1780 1840

Download or read book Blue and White Transfer Ware 1780 1840 written by Arthur Wilfred Coysh and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blue and white transfer-printed earthenware was produced in vast quantities in the early nineteenth century. This book describes and illustrates over 150 of the relatively few pieces of blue and white transfer ware that do bear the makers' mark." --Cover.

Book English Transferware

Download or read book English Transferware written by Joe Keller and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful patterns of 20th cetnury English transferware from manufacturers like Crown Ducal, Enoch Wood, Royal Staffordshire, Royal Crownford, Alfred Meakin, Spode, Johnson Brothers, Masons and others. With nearly 600 beautiful color photos and 2000 pieces illustrated, this book focuses on the most actively sought-after patterns. Also, included are detailed pricing tables for several major patterns and commentary of popular trends.

Book Painting with Fire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew C. Hunter
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-03-23
  • ISBN : 022639039X
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Painting with Fire written by Matthew C. Hunter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds’s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the long arc of chemically produced and reproduced art from the 1670s through the 1860s, the book reconsiders early photography by situating it in relationship to Reynolds’s replicated paintings and the literal engines of British industry. By following the chemicals, Painting with Fire remaps familiar stories about academic painting and pictorial experiment amid the industrialization of chemical knowledge.

Book Cartographies of Tsardom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valerie Ann Kivelson
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780801472534
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Cartographies of Tsardom written by Valerie Ann Kivelson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By studying 17th century maps Kivelson sheds light on Muscovite Russia - the relationship of state and society, the growth of an empire, the rise of serfdom and the place of Orthodox Christianity in society"-OCLC

Book Butterfly People

    Book Details:
  • Author : William R. Leach
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2014-01-28
  • ISBN : 1400076927
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Butterfly People written by William R. Leach and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout. From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America's infatuation with butterflies—“flying flowers”—and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence. A product of William Leach's lifelong love of butterflies, this engaging and elegantly illustrated history shows how Americans from all walks of life passionately pursued butterflies, and how through their discoveries and observations they transformed the character of natural history. In a book as full of life as the subjects themselves and foregrounding a collecting culture now on the brink of vanishing, Leach reveals how the beauty of butterflies led Americans into a deeper understanding of the natural world.

Book Journal of the Society of Arts

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stage coach and Tavern Days

Download or read book Stage coach and Tavern Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bureaucracy of Beauty

Download or read book The Bureaucracy of Beauty written by Arindam Dutta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Journal of the Royal Society of Arts

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Society of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lancelot  Capability  Brown  1716 1783

Download or read book Lancelot Capability Brown 1716 1783 written by Jane Brown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's influence spread into the lowland landscape at large, and into landscape painting. He stands behind our vision, and fantasy, of rural England. In this vivid, lively biography, based on detailed research, Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man, his work, his happy domestic life, and his crowded world. She follows the life of the jovial yet elusive Mr Brown, from his childhood and apprenticeship in rural Northumberland, through his formative years at Stowe, the most famous garden of the day. His innovative ideas, and his affable and generous nature, led to a meteoric rise to a Royal Appointment in 1764 and his clients and friends ranged from statesmen like the elder Pitt to artists and actors like David Garrick. Riding constantly across England, Brown never ceased working until he collapsed and died in February 1783 after visiting one of his oldest clients. He was a practical man but also a visionary, always willing to try something new. As this beautifully illustrated biography shows, Brown filled England with enchantment - follies, cascades, lakes, bridges, ornaments, monuments, meadows and woods - creating views that still delight us today.

Book Thames Mudlarking

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jason Sandy
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-02-18
  • ISBN : 1784424331
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Thames Mudlarking written by Jason Sandy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated introduction to mudlarking which tells the incredible, forgotten history of London through objects found on the foreshore of the River Thames. Often seen combing the shoreline of the River Thames at low tide, groups of archaeology enthusiasts known as 'mudlarks' continue a tradition that dates back to the eighteenth century. Over the years they have found a vast array of historical artefacts providing glimpses into the city's past. Objects lost or discarded centuries ago – from ancient river offerings such as the Battersea Shield and Waterloo Helmet, to seventeenth-century trade tokens and even medals for bravery – have been discovered in the river. This book explores a fascinating assortment of finds from prehistoric to modern times, which collectively tell the rich and illustrious story of London and its inhabitants - illustrated with and array of photographs taken of the items in situ in the mud and gravel of the Thames estuary, at the same time both gritty and glimmering.

Book Journal of the Society of Arts

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1856
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 876 pages

Download or read book Journal written by Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raid the Icebox Now

Download or read book Raid the Icebox Now written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andy Warhol’s Raid the Icebox exhibition [held at the RISD Museum of Art, April 23-June 30, 1970], and the many similar museum projects it has spawned throughout the world over the past fifty years allow us to reconsider what storage is and might be. How do we recuperate the lost narratives residing in storage? How do we write new histories? How do objects that have become disassociated from their original contexts acquire fresh lives? How does storage evolve from a problem to be solved to an opportunity for discovery?"--Prelude.

Book Journal of the Royal Society of Arts

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: