Author: Fletcher, C R L
Title: Historical Portraits : 1700 - 1850 - Part I 1700 - 1800 [with] Part II 1800 - 1850 [ 2 volumes complete ]
Description: Oxford University Press, 1919, 1st edition. Buckram, G. 2 volumes, xliv+268pp, viii+332pp, grand total of 126pp b/w plates, cloth rather rubbed, lightly foxed to a few pages with the occasional ink splash to the margin, Ex Public School library with a bookplate on the pastedown, accession numbers to the spine, a good working set. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A collection of portraits, taken from old masters, of 250 leading men & a few women of 18th & 19th century Britain, with each person given a brief biography. Those appearing are mainly from the political, literary, artistic, scientific, religious & aristocratic walks of English society. Taken as a collection the images show the fashions & prefered portrait style of the age.

Keywords: art, biography, history, science, politics