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Title(s):

The Treasure houses of Britain : five hundred years of private patronage and art collecting / edited by Gervase Jackson-Stops.

Published/Created:
Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art ; 1985.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1985.
Physical Description:
680 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
N5245 T74 1985 (LC) Oversize
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Related Content:
http://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/treasure-houses-of-britain.pdf
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Catalogue of a loan exhibition held at the National Gallery, Nov. 3, 1985- Mar. 16, 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 664-673) and index.
Subject Terms:
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Art -- Private collections.
Art patronage -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Art patronage.
Country homes -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Country homes.
Great Britain.
Kunst.
Landhuizen.
Manors -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Manors.
Form/Genre:
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Contributors:
Jackson-Stops, Gervase.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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  • Temples of the arts / Gervase Jackson-Stops
  • The power house / Mark Girouard
  • Portraiture and the country house / Oliver Millar
  • The Englishman in Italy / Brinsley Ford
  • The British as collectors / Francis Haskell
  • The backward look / John Cornforth
  • The last hundred years / Marcus Binney and Gervase Jackson-Stops
  • From castle to country house : The Tudor Renaissance ; The Jacobean Long Gallery ; Anglo-Dutch taste and restoration opulence ; Triumph of the baroque
  • The grand tour : Lord Burlington and the Palladian revolution ; Souvenirs of Italy ; The sculpture rotunda ; Augustan taste ; The Dutch cabinet ; Landscape and the picturesque
  • The gentleman collector : The country house library ; Chinoiserie and porcelain ; The sporting life ; The Waterloo Gallery
  • The romantic vision : The Highlands and the Victorian spirit ; The pre-Raphaelite era ; Edwardian elegance and the continuing tradition ; Epilogue : Life in the country house.