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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Publisher's Notes
This affectionate study of animal portraiture, illustrated throughout with images from the National Portrait Gallery, charts the frequent presence in even the grandest portraits of the silent companion - dogs and cats from the Tudor period to the present day, as recorded with their masters and mistresses in over 450 years of paintings, sketches, drawings and photographs. From the Elizabethan Sir Henry Unton to the children of Charles I, from Lady Caroline Lamb to Queen Alexandra, Edith Sitwell to Sir Alec Douglas Home, this book charts the English love-affair with the domestic pet and the delightful and often surprising ways in which their likenesses have been handed down to us.
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