James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art) by Ledbury, Mark

YC British Art. Used - Very Good. 2014. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. 4to. Profusely illus. Some shelf-wear. Else bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Art).

Yc British Art, 2014. Hardcover. New. 246 pages. 12.50x10.00x1.25 inches.

New Haven New Haven ; London : Yale Center for British Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new, still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Physical description; ix, 246 p. : colour and black & white illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 32 cm. Summary; ""The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs a very different image of Northcote: that of a prolific member of the Royal Academy and an active participant in the cultural and political circles of the Romantic era, as well as a portrait and history painter in his own right. This book focuses on Northcote's One Hundred Fables (1828), a masterpiece of… Read More

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