Author: BERMINGHAM, ANN.
Title: Sensation & Sensibility. Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door.
Description: New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005. 0300110022. "Late in his career Thomas Gainsborough became preoccupied with the theme of the cottage door, and he created a group of paintings and drawings that show rustic figures clustered around the open door of a cottage set ub a deeply wooded landscape. Often seen as exemplars of the rural idyll, these works were among the first landscape paintings to reflect the eighteenth century aesthetic of sensibility.2 28.5cms x 23.5cms x `2cms. Pp.xii/5 full-page colour plates/216, 125 colour and black & white figure illustrations. Green cloth, dustwrapper has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

Keywords: Bermingham Sensation Sensibility Thomas Gainsborough Cottage Door Rural Idyll Rustic Landscape Art Paintings 47323 Art


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