Constable: paintings, drawings and watercolours. [watercolors] [The Letters from Coleorton; Passages from English Landscape Scenery; Constable's Sayings]
by Constable, John, 1776-1837 ; Taylor, Basil
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London : Phaidon ; New York : Praeger, 1973., 1973. Very Good. 240 p. chiefly illus. (some col.), facsim., ports. 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0714815942; 9780714815947 LCCN: 72-79554 ; LC: ND497.C7; Dewey: 759.2 ; OCLC: 804828 ; green cloth with gold lettering, in color pictorial dustjacket ; name on front ep ; 32 pages of color illustrations, 159 black and white ; "This is the first comprehensive book on Constable to have appeared in many years, and it is the only book in print [1973] in which an extensive range of his pictures is effectively reproduced...In his brilliant essay, Basil Taylor analyses the character and achievements of this important artist. He examines Constable's career and writes about his marriage and the tragic death of his wife in 1828, an event which had a profound effect on his painting. The three appendices contain extracts from Constable's writings, both formal and informal, from which a very full understanding of his ideas and prejudices, experiences and enjoyments, is to be had. There are also descriptive notes to the plates a nd a select bibliography."--dustjacket ; VG/VG
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- Constable: paintings, drawings and watercolours. [watercolors] [The Letters from Coleorton; Passages from English Landscape Scenery; Constable's Sayings]
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- Constable, John, 1776-1837 ; Taylor, Basil
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- Used - Very Good
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- London : Phaidon ; New York : Praeger, 1973.
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- 1973
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- Constable John painting arrowsmith callcott augustus wall claude lorraine paris france dunthorne farington joseph gainsborough thomas leslie charles robert david lucas turner j m w watts reynolds joshua
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