Title & Author:

The Georgian London town house : building, collecting and display / edited by Susanna Avery-Quash and Kate Retford.

Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xxi, 335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Revised papers presented in their original form at the conference Animating the Georgian London town house, March 17, 2016, National Gallery, London.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.
Preface / Sir Nicholas Penny -- Introduction / Kate Retford -- Part one : Architecture, furnishing, decorating -- 1. A house divided : building biographies and the town house in Georgian London / Matthew Jenkins and Charlotte Newman -- 2. "You never saw such a scene of magnificence and taste" : Norfolk House after its grand reopening in 1756 / Jeremy Howard -- 3. The refurbishment of Northumberland House : craftsmen and interior decoration in mid-eighteenth-century London town houses / Adriano Aymonino and Manolo Guerci -- 4. Town and country : the Spencers of Althorp / Joseph Friedman -- 5. The regency transformation of Burlington House, Piccadilly : the architectural drawings of Samuel Ware in the Royal Academy of Arts / Neil Bingham -- Part two : Buying, collecting, display -- 6. The display and reception of private picture collections in London town houses, 1780–1830 / Susannah Homer -- 7. Superb cabinets or splendid anachronisms? Anatomy, natural history and fine arts in the London town house / Helen McCormack -- 8. Artist in residence : Joshua Reynolds at No 47, Leicester Fields / Donato Esposito -- 9. The pictures at Carlton House / Desmond Shawe Taylor -- 10. Glitter and fashion in the "Louvre of London" : animating Cleveland House / Anne Nellis Richter -- 11. John Julius Angerstein and the development of his art collection at No 100, Pall Mall, London / Susanna Avery-Quash Afterword / Joseph Friedman and Susanna Avery-Quash.

Summary:

For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.

ISBN:

9781501337291 hardcover alkaline paper
1501337297 hardcover alkaline paper
electronic book
9781501337314
9781501337321
9781501337307 (ePub ebook)

Subject:

Architecture and society England London History 18th century Congresses.
Architecture and society England London History 19th century Congresses.
Row houses England London Congresses.
Architecture, Georgian England London Congresses.
Architecture et société Angleterre Londres Histoire 18e siècle Congrès.
Architecture et société Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle Congrès.
Habitations en bandes Angleterre Londres Congrès.
Architecture Georgian Angleterre Londres Congrès.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Georgian
Buildings
Row houses
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc. Congresses.
England London

Form/genre:

Conference papers (document genres)
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Avery-Quash, Susanna, editor.
Retford, Kate, 1974- editor.
Animating the Georgian London Town House (Conference) (2016 : National Gallery),

Georgian London townhouse

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305132
Call No.: BIB 250870
Status: Available