Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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English Literature and Books Printed in England Prior to 1800
Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Catalogue of the Library of Sir Edward W. Watkin, M.P.
Author: J. E. Cornish
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Walliers-Walles
Author: Henry Colin Gray Matthew
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
The Athenæum
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Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Pages : 1276
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The Voyage of the Icebergs
Author: Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300095364
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in April of 1861, Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest “Great Picture”—a painting titled The North. Despite favorable reviews, the painting failed to find a buyer. Faced with this unexpected setback, Church added a broken mast to the foreground and changed the work’s title to The Icebergs. He then shipped the painting to London, where it was finally sold to an English railroad magnate and subsequently disappeared from view for 116 years. This beautiful book tells the fascinating story of The Icebergs and provides a detailed look at the cycle of fame, neglect, and resuscitation of both this masterwork and Church’s career. In 1979, The Icebergs sold at auction for $2.5 million, at the time the highest amount ever paid for an American painting. The sale coincided with an upswing in the popularity and acclaim accorded to American landscape painting, catalyzing the market for American art and contributing to a revival in the prestige of Church and the Hudson River School. Drawing on extensive interviews with many of the people involved with the painting’s rediscovery, sale, and eventual donation to the Dallas Museum of Art, the author considers the way marketing has defined The Icebergs.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300095364
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in April of 1861, Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest “Great Picture”—a painting titled The North. Despite favorable reviews, the painting failed to find a buyer. Faced with this unexpected setback, Church added a broken mast to the foreground and changed the work’s title to The Icebergs. He then shipped the painting to London, where it was finally sold to an English railroad magnate and subsequently disappeared from view for 116 years. This beautiful book tells the fascinating story of The Icebergs and provides a detailed look at the cycle of fame, neglect, and resuscitation of both this masterwork and Church’s career. In 1979, The Icebergs sold at auction for $2.5 million, at the time the highest amount ever paid for an American painting. The sale coincided with an upswing in the popularity and acclaim accorded to American landscape painting, catalyzing the market for American art and contributing to a revival in the prestige of Church and the Hudson River School. Drawing on extensive interviews with many of the people involved with the painting’s rediscovery, sale, and eventual donation to the Dallas Museum of Art, the author considers the way marketing has defined The Icebergs.
“The” Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Pages : 628
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Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Pages : 1276
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Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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The academy
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Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Pages : 858
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