Title & Author:

The Treasure houses of Britain : five hundred years of private patronage and art collecting / edited by Gervase Jackson-Stops.

Publication:

Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 1985.

Description:

680 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of a loan exhibition held at the National Gallery, Nov. 3, 1985- Mar. 16, 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 664-673) and index.
Temples of the arts / Gervase Jackson-Stops -- The power house / Mark Girouard -- Portraiture and the country house / Oliver Millar -- The Englishman in Italy / Brinsley Ford -- The British as collectors / Francis Haskell -- The backward look / John Cornforth -- The last hundred years / Marcus Binney and Gervase Jackson-Stops -- From castle to country house : The Tudor Renaissance ; The Jacobean Long Gallery ; Anglo-Dutch taste and restoration opulence ; Triumph of the baroque -- The grand tour : Lord Burlington and the Palladian revolution ; Souvenirs of Italy ; The sculpture rotunda ; Augustan taste ; The Dutch cabinet ; Landscape and the picturesque -- The gentleman collector : The country house library ; Chinoiserie and porcelain ; The sporting life ; The Waterloo Gallery -- The romantic vision : The Highlands and the Victorian spirit ; The pre-Raphaelite era ; Edwardian elegance and the continuing tradition ; Epilogue : Life in the country house.

ISBN:

0300035330 (pbk.)
9780300035339 (pbk.)
0300035047 (hard)
9780300035049 (hard)

Subject:

Art patronage Great Britain Exhibitions.
Art Private collections Great Britain Exhibitions.
Country homes Great Britain Exhibitions.
Manors Great Britain Exhibitions.
Mécénat Grande-Bretagne Expositions.
Art Collections privées Grande-Bretagne Expositions.
Art patronage
Art Private collections
Country homes
Manors
Landhuizen.
Kunst.
Art collections Great Britain Exhibitions.
Great Britain
Great Britain Country houses Art objects, ca 1450-ca 1900.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Jackson-Stops, Gervase.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 79147
Call No.: ID EXHWASHINGTON; ID:86-B1481
Status: Available