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An exhibition catalog, this book also serves as a scholarly examination of the various British arts and artists represented in the Hermitage collections. It surveys a specialized area of British art?art commissioned by a foreign court?illuminating a little-known aspect of production and collecting. The essays, all written by specialists, concentrate on such topics as Sir Joshua Reynolds, English silver, engraved gems, Scottish architects in imperial Russia, and more. The essays form a new subsection of British art and will long be consulted; the bibliography too will be particularly useful to scholars, though the lack of an index is a drawback. The catalog section is arranged by medium. The photographs are handsomely and precisely reproduced, giving a wealth of detail. Each object is fully described, with a complete list of the literature on each. For all scholarly art libraries.?Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
More than two hundred years ago, Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art and collected some spectacular items including paintings, drawings, sculpture, silver, and Wedgwood ceramics. This sumptuously illustrated book tells the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth century.
An exhibition catalog, this book also serves as a scholarly examination of the various British arts and artists represented in the Hermitage collections. It surveys a specialized area of British art?art commissioned by a foreign court?illuminating a little-known aspect of production and collecting. The essays, all written by specialists, concentrate on such topics as Sir Joshua Reynolds, English silver, engraved gems, Scottish architects in imperial Russia, and more. The essays form a new subsection of British art and will long be consulted; the bibliography too will be particularly useful to scholars, though the lack of an index is a drawback. The catalog section is arranged by medium. The photographs are handsomely and precisely reproduced, giving a wealth of detail. Each object is fully described, with a complete list of the literature on each. For all scholarly art libraries.?Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport, Ct.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
More than two hundred years ago, Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art and collected some spectacular items including paintings, drawings, sculpture, silver, and Wedgwood ceramics. This sumptuously illustrated book tells the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth century.
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- English Accents: Interactions with British Art c. 1776-1855 (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750, New Readings) by Christiana Payne on page 217, and Back Matter
- Great Women Collectors by Charlotte Gere in Back Matter
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