Essential Pre-Raphaelites [Hardcover]

Lucinda Hawksley (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Dempsey Parr (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840845244
• ISBN-13: 978-1840845242
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #462,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars High Quality Color Reproductions, December 6, 2004

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Gagewyn (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Pre-Raphaelites (Hardcover)

This book is a good buy with so many high quality color reproductions of art by Pre-Raphaelite artists. The format is reproduction on the right - a short write up on the history and background of that painting on the left, often with a similar work or a preliminary sketch reproduced much smaller and set into the text on the left hand side. The one flaw is that sometimes the reproduction spans onto both pages, so that part of the picture lies on the fold. This happens in maybe a third of the pictures.

The descriptions and histories are written for the general public and use clear language. There is also a short general history article at the beginning, but the highlight of the book is the reproductions of art. They are very good quality and plentiful. This is a good buy to own examples of these works.

Artists represented in the full page prints:

William Holman Hunt (11 works)
John Everett Millais (10 works)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18 works)
Walter Howell Deverell (2 works)
GF Watts (2 works)
James Collinson (2 works)
Frederick George Stephens (2 works)
Ford Madox Brown (10 works)
Thomas Woolner (1 work)
William Morris (2 works)
Burne-Jones (12 works)
Alexander Munro (1 work)
Arthur Hughes (10 works)
Elizabeth Siddal (2 works, but not her self portrait *sniff*)
Henry Wallis (3 works)
William Lindsay Windus (1 work)
Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1 work)
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (2 works)
Frederick Sandys (4 works)
Frederic Lord Leighton (3 works)
Simeon Solomon (2 works)
Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1 work)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tedema (2 works)
Inchbold (1 work)
Charles Edward Halle (2 works)
Evelyn de Morgan (1 work)
John William Waterhouse (5 works)
Anna Lea Merrit (1 work)
E Corbett (1 work)
John Melhuish Strudwick (2 works)
Eleanor Brickdale (2 works)
Edward John Poynter (1 work)

As you can see from the quantity this includes less frequently reproduced works as well as the famous ones. I saw some works reproduced here that I hadn't seen elsewhere, which doesn't happen too often. This is a really good book for high quality reproductions. It would be appropriate for an art teacher to show to classes or a school library that needs a book on this topic.