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James Northcote, history painting, and the Fables / Mark Ledbury
by Ledbury, Mark (Andrew Mark)
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- ISBN 10
- 0300208138
- ISBN 13
- 9780300208139
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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 wood engraving, and the unconventional, collaged manuscripts for the volume. An underappreciated and courageously eccentric masterpiece, the Fables, extensively published here for the first time, were an early experiment in what is now a familiar multimedia practice. Idiosyncratic, personal and visionary, One Hundred Fables serves as a lens through which to examine Northcote's long, complex and fruitful artistic career"" Subject; Northcote, James (British painter, 1746-1831) Exhibitions.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- James Northcote, history painting, and the Fables / Mark Ledbury
- Author
- Ledbury, Mark (Andrew Mark)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300208138
- ISBN 13
- 9780300208139
- Publisher
- New Haven New Haven ; London : Yale Center for British Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven And London
- Date Published
- 2014
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