Author: MacIver Percival
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Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Old English Furniture and Its Surroundings
Author: MacIver Percival
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Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Furniture of the Georgian Period - From 1715 through Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and the Regency With Notes on the French Epoch
Author: Anon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473357608
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473357608
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
The Practical Book of Learning Decoration and Furniture
Author: Edward Stratton Holloway
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Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Antiquarian
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Connoisseur
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts Library
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Behind Closed Doors
Author: Amanda Vickery
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300188560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From the award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer’s ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition. The basis of a 3-part TV series for BBC2. “Vickery is that rare thing, an…historian who writes like a novelist.”—Jane Schilling, Daily Mail “Comparison between Vickery and Jane Austen is irresistible…This book is almost too pleasurable, in that Vickery's style and delicious nosiness conceal some seriously weighty scholarship.”—Lisa Hilton, The Independent “If until now the Georgian home has been like a monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three dimensional and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed Doors demonstrates that rigorous academic work can also be nosy, gossipy, and utterly engaging.”—Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300188560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From the award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer’s ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition. The basis of a 3-part TV series for BBC2. “Vickery is that rare thing, an…historian who writes like a novelist.”—Jane Schilling, Daily Mail “Comparison between Vickery and Jane Austen is irresistible…This book is almost too pleasurable, in that Vickery's style and delicious nosiness conceal some seriously weighty scholarship.”—Lisa Hilton, The Independent “If until now the Georgian home has been like a monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three dimensional and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed Doors demonstrates that rigorous academic work can also be nosy, gossipy, and utterly engaging.”—Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review
ARTnews
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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By-paths in Collecting
Author: Virginia Huntington Robie
Publisher:
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Franciscans-Gibson
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.