Author: Lindsay Stainton ; Christopher White Title: Drawing in England : from Hilliard to Hogarth
Description: London, British Museum Publications, 1987 IIllustrated cardboard cover in colour, 275 x 220 x 23 mm. ENG.edition, 255pp., profoundly illustrated in b/w and sepia. ISBN 9780521346511. ¶ This is the first major survey of drawing in seventeenth-century England. Two hundred masterpieces by 72 artists are catalogued and discussed. A large number of these are from the unrivalled collection of the British Museum, but many important drawings are also included from other major collections, both public and private, in Britain and North America, among them the Ashmolean Museum, the Chatsworth Settlement and the Yale Centre for British Art. Includes essays on foreign-born artists working in England; the styles, techniques, methods and purposes of drawing at this time; the role of patronage, and the increasing status of the artist in seventeenth century England. In good condition.
Keywords: graph tekening dessin brittish d' angleterre britse kunst . 9780521346511
Price: EUR 35.00 = appr. US$ 38.04 Seller: Erik Tonen Books
- Book number: 28800
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