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GARSTANG, DONALD (EDITED BY) The British Face: A View of Portraiture, 1625-1850
London, P & D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. 1986, First Edition. Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, 167 pp. [8] pp. of plates, ports. (some col.); 27 cm. Exhibition held 19th February to 29th March, 1986. Entries prepared by John Martin Robinson (paintings), John Kenworthy-Browne (sculpture) and Ruth Bromberg (prints); catalogue edited and coordinated by Donald Garstang. Firm binding, clean inside copy. An unusually ambitious, large catalogue issued by a private art dealer, with scholarly essays. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Richard Herner; Ancestral Piety, by John Martin Robinson; Thoughts on Changing Attitudes to British Portraiture, by Kenneth Garlick; Portraits and Social Class, by David Mannings; Fashion and Fantasy: The Use of Costume in Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture, by Aileen Ribeiro; Graven Images: British Portrait Busts 1720-1860, by John Kenworthy-Browne; The Portrait Engraving in Georgian England, by David Alexander; A Photographic Glossary to the Essays; Catalogue of the Works. 94 works reproduced. Fine.
Offered for US$ 90.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 029991
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