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Pages : 44
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Letters to Two Great Men. The first to the Earl of E******t [i.e. Egremont]: the second to the Earl of B**e [i.e. Bute], etc
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Pages : 44
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... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Category : English literature
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Pages : 748
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The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900. Supplement, 1900-1905
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Category : English literature
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Pages : 740
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library
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Pages : 742
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Pages : 742
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Pages : 740
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Letters of David Hume to William Strahan
Author: David Hume
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Dilettanti
Author: Bruce Redford
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles Dalton
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Wars of the Bruces
Author: Colm McNamee
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857904957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England's war with Robert the Bruce profoundly affected the whole of the British Isles. Scottish raiders struck deep into the heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire; Robert's younger brother, Edward Bruce, was proclaimed King of Ireland and came close to subduing the country; the Isle of Man was captured and a Welsh sea-port was raided; and in the North Sea Scots allied with German and Flemish pirates to cripple England's vital wool trade and disrupt its war effort. Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread, this is the first book to link up the various theatres of war and discuss the effect of the wars of the Bruces outside Scotland.
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857904957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England's war with Robert the Bruce profoundly affected the whole of the British Isles. Scottish raiders struck deep into the heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire; Robert's younger brother, Edward Bruce, was proclaimed King of Ireland and came close to subduing the country; the Isle of Man was captured and a Welsh sea-port was raided; and in the North Sea Scots allied with German and Flemish pirates to cripple England's vital wool trade and disrupt its war effort. Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread, this is the first book to link up the various theatres of war and discuss the effect of the wars of the Bruces outside Scotland.