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  • af Christopher Dresser
    413,95 kr.

    Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was arguably the first British industrial designer, working in a variety of media, and this 1862 work was his most influential book. Highly illustrated, it describes how to incorporate ornament into design, and encouraged the rising middle classes to decorate their homes themselves.

  • af Jane Ellen Panton
    511,95 kr.

    Jane Ellen Panton (1847-1923) was the second daughter of the artist William Powell Frith, and an expert on domestic issues. Published in 1909, this is a further collection of Panton's memoirs, following her earlier autobiography Leaves from a Life (also reissued in this series). It looks back on life in mid-nineteenth-century England and the changes that had taken place since then, beginning by asking the question of how much the present generation knew about their country's past. Over fifteen chapters, Panton explores developments in the nature and structure of institutions such as the family, the community, the church, the electorate and the military, deeming certain changes as negative, such as the decline of county families and the gentry, while welcoming others, such as increased opportunities for women. Providing revealing insight into English middle-class concerns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book remains of interest to social historians.

  • - Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians
    af Walter Thornbury
    603,95 kr.

    This pioneering two-volume biography (1862) explores the genius of the groundbreaking Romantic landscape and historical painter and printmaker J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). In Volume 1, the author Walter Thornbury (1828-76) traces Turner's 'art life' from cockney prodigy to Royal Academician, and creator of such masterpieces as The Fighting Temeraire.

  • af Alexander William Crawford Lindsay
    528,95 - 533,95 kr.

    Published in 1847, this three-volume work surveys Christian painting and sculpture. The author, Alexander Lindsay (1812-80), an aristocrat who travelled extensively in Italy, strongly influenced art collecting, and his work on the Victorian construction of morals and artistic taste remains instructive.

  • af William Holman Hunt
    670,95 - 704,95 kr.

    William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) chronicles the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's history in this two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father. Volume 1 describes the coming together of Millais, Rossetti and their circle, Ruskin's influence, Hunt's own early successes, and the perils of painting The Scapegoat by the Dead Sea.

  • - Composed Chiefly of his Letters
    af John Constable
    534,95 kr.

    Reissued here in its expanded second edition of 1845, this biography offers an informed portrait of the prolific landscape artist John Constable (1776-1837). Based principally on letters in the collection of fellow painter Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859), it offers an important insight into Constable's art, character and relationships.

  • - With Illustrations, Notes, and an Examination of Grecian Architecture
    af Sir William Chambers
    482,95 - 529,95 kr.

    Sir William Chambers (1722-96), architect and furniture designer, wished to increase his status in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. His Treatise, annotated and republished in two volumes in 1825 by the architect Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863), is regarded as one of the standard English texts on classical architecture.

  • - President of the Royal Academy
    af John Guille Millais
    611,95 - 676,95 kr.

    Famous and controversial for paintings as diverse as Ophelia and Bubbles, Sir John Everett Millais (1829-96) revolutionised the Victorian art world by co-founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, eventually becoming president of the Royal Academy. His son, John Guille Millais (1865-1931), published this highly illustrated two-volume biography in 1899.

  • af Walter Strickland
    821,95 - 910,95 kr.

    First published in 1913, this highly illustrated two-volume work was intended to give as full an account as possible of the lives and works of Irish painters, sculptors and engravers from the earliest times to the nineteenth century. Volume 1 covers artists with surnames beginning A to K.

  • - His Family-Letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti
    af Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    604,95 - 606,95 kr.

    The remarkable life of the Victorian poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) is illuminated in this two-volume work, published in 1895 by his brother William Michael (1829-1919). Volume 1 is given over to a sympathetic memoir, while Volume 2 contains hundreds of Dante's letters to his family.

  • af Augustus Welby Pugin
    411,95 kr.

    This 1843 book comprises two illustrated articles examining recent English church buildings. In the first paper Pugin discusses how to meet the needs of a small Catholic parish. In the second he commends the influence of the Ecclesiologist on church architecture, which debated the connection between architecture and religion.

  • - Being a Brief Account of the Vestments in Use in the Church, Prior to, and the Changes Therein in and from, the Reign of Edward VI
    af Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
    540,95 kr.

    The eleventh, and definitive, 1882 edition of this hugely popular, highly illustrated work consists of two volumes on Gothic ecclesiastical architecture and a third on church vestments. Bloxam records his concern that: 'In the so-called restorations of ancient churches, not a few historical features ... have been ruthlessly ... swept away.'

  • - With an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Centenary of Ancient Terms
    af Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
    486,95 - 487,95 kr.

    The eleventh, and definitive, 1882 edition of this hugely popular, highly illustrated work consists of two volumes on Gothic ecclesiastical architecture and a third on church vestments. Bloxam records his concern that: 'In the so-called restorations of ancient churches, not a few historical features ... have been ruthlessly ... swept away.'

  • - And, on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape
    af Uvedale Price
    541,95 kr.

    Frustrated by what he saw as the over-grooming prevalent in British landscape gardening and associated with the work of Capability Brown, Uvedale Price (1747-1829) published this essay in 1794. He emphasises here the importance of naturalism and harmony with the surrounding environment.

  • - Intended as a Supplement to the Essay on the Picturesque
    af Uvedale Price
    378,95 kr.

    In 1795, the landscape gardener Humphry Repton (1752-1818) published a letter addressed to Uvedale Price (1747-1829) which disputed some of the points in Price's 1794 essay on the connection between landscape painting and landscape gardening. This 1798 second edition of Price's reply includes Repton's letter.

  • af Daniel Wilson
    542,95 kr.

    Daniel Wilson (1816-92) trained as an artist before turning to a scholarly career in archaeology and anthropology. This two-volume work on Edinburgh's historic buildings and antiquities was first published in 1848. Alongside detailed historical notes, Wilson's illustrations record places that were being threatened by development, or were already lost.

  • af Gustav Theodor Fechner
    472,95 - 525,95 kr.

    The German philosopher and psychologist Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-87) pioneered the field of psychophysics. This two-volume second edition of his 1876 work on aesthetics was published in 1897-8. Fechner identifies here new methods, and advocates the experimental and inductive study of 'aesthetics from below'.

  • - Reprinted from the Edition of 1787
    af Josiah Wedgwood
    313,95 kr.

    This fascinating 1873 publication is a version of the catalogue produced by the Wedgwood company almost one hundred years earlier, in 1787. A brief history of the catalogues is provided, followed by a long list of the cameos, intaglios, figurines, vases, and dinner, tea and coffee services which the firm offered.

  • - Preceded by a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, with Notices of Nearly Five Hundred English Buildings
    af Thomas Rickman
    386,95 kr.

    First published in 1817, this highly influential illustrated study by the architect Thomas Rickman (1776-1841) provides an overview of English medieval architecture. Drawing on knowledge of some five hundred buildings, it quickly became an essential reference work for architectural students and practitioners in the nineteenth century.

  • - From his Autobiography and Journals
    af Benjamin Robert Haydon
    511,95 - 583,95 kr.

    Before the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) committed suicide, he asked for his autobiographical writings to be published. Edited by Tom Taylor, this three-volume work appeared in 1853. Volume 1 reproduces Haydon's account of his life up to 1820. His Conversations and Table-Talk is also reissued in this series.

  • - With Facsimiles of her Drawings and a Portrait
    af Elizabeth Eastlake
    530,95 kr.

    The writer Elizabeth Eastlake (1809-93) travelled widely in her early years, and later moved in the highest literary and artistic circles. This two-volume work of 1895, edited by her nephew and full of shrewd judgements on art and on people, is compiled from her journals and letters.

  • af J. C. Loudon
    1.048,95 kr.

    Aiming to bring 'the principles of architectural taste' to a broad readership, the landscape gardener John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843) compiled this monumental encyclopaedia, which was published in 1833. Including over 2,000 illustrations, the work focuses on the exterior and interior design of rural dwellings, from humble cottages to grand villas.

  • af Joseph Woods
    748,95 - 809,95 kr.

    Suitable for a general readership, this two-volume work of 1828 critically assesses the ancient and modern architecture of France, Italy and Greece encountered by the architect and botanist Joseph Woods (1776-1864) on his European travels. The text is accompanied by drawings by Woods of important buildings and architectural features.

  • - Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor, and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists
    af John Thomas Smith
    574,95 - 638,95 kr.

    The sculptor Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) was famed for his portrait busts of leading figures of the day. This gossipy, anecdotal two-volume biography, first published in 1828 by the draughtsman and antiquary John Thomas Smith (1766-1833), sheds much light on the London art world in which the sculptor flourished.

  • af Georgiana Burne-Jones
    533,95 - 537,95 kr.

    A second generation Pre-Raphaelite and founder member of the Morris firm, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98) influenced and exemplified the Aesthetic Movement, and inspired the European Symbolist painters. Volume 1 of this engaging 1904 biography describes his motherless childhood, his friendships with Morris, Ruskin, Rossetti and others, and his promising early career.

  • af William Powell Frith
    508,95 - 585,95 kr.

    The celebrated Victorian narrative painter William Powell Frith (1819-1909) published his popular two-volume autobiography in 1887, adding a third volume in 1888. Volume 1 covers his early life, his literary and historical paintings, and his sensationally successful 'modern-life' crowd scenes, Ramsgate Sands, Derby Day and The Railway Station.

  • - Particularly the High-Lands of Scotland
    af William Gilpin
    412,95 - 472,95 kr.

    Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724-1804) published a series of works recording his observations on the picturesque across British landscapes. This two-volume work of 1789 describes a journey made principally through Scotland in 1776, taking in Edinburgh and the lochs, castles and rivers of the Highlands.

  • - From the Conquest to the End of the Thirteenth Century
    af Thomas Hudson Turner
    606,95 kr.

    Volume 1 of this highly illustrated work was written by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815-52) and published in 1851 by John Henry Parker (1806-84), who himself completed the second volume after Turner's death. It contains details of domestic building in England from the Norman Conquest to 1300.

  • af Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
    456,95 - 487,95 kr.

    The most accomplished female painter of her age, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) is best remembered for her many portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Her two-volume autobiography was published in France in 1835-7, and this English version (of which the translator is unknown) in 1879.

  • af James Fergusson
    667,95 kr.

    James Fergusson (1808-86) became one of the most respected architectural historians of India. His 1876 account was revised in two volumes in 1910 by archaeologist James Burgess (1832-1916) and architect Richard Spiers (1838-1916). Lavishly illustrated, it remains of relevance to students of Indian and Asian architecture.

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