Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London: Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically, for Immediate Reference, Each Preceded by an Historical and Critical Introduction

Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London: Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically, for Immediate Reference, Each Preceded by an Historical and Critical Introduction

by Anna Jameson
ISBN-10:
1108073840
ISBN-13:
9781108073844
Pub. Date:
07/17/2014
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
1108073840
ISBN-13:
9781108073844
Pub. Date:
07/17/2014
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London: Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically, for Immediate Reference, Each Preceded by an Historical and Critical Introduction

Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London: Containing Accurate Catalogues, Arranged Alphabetically, for Immediate Reference, Each Preceded by an Historical and Critical Introduction

by Anna Jameson

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Overview

A professional author of art and literary criticism as well as travel writing, Anna Jameson (1794–1860) journeyed widely in Europe and North America, and moved in the literary circles which included the Brownings and Harriet Martineau. Many of her other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. In 1844, she published this book on the great private art collections of London. She begins with an essay on the formation of the collections, from the seventeenth-century earl of Arundel onwards, and then describes in turn the Queen's Gallery, the Bridgewater, Sutherland, Grosvenor and Lansdowne galleries, and the collections of Sir Robert Peel and of the poet Samuel Rogers. For each collection there is an introductory essay, a catalogue raisonnée and a note of the most important items in the collection. This work is a fascinating and valuable guide to mid-nineteenth-century taste and fashion in art.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108073844
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/17/2014
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
Pages: 458
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

General introduction; The Queen's Gallery; The Bridgewater Gallery; The Sutherland Gallery; The Grosvenor Gallery; The collection of the Marquis of Lansdowne; The collection of Sir Robert Peel; The collection of Mr Rogers.
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