Book Description
In this volume are presented some of Thomas Rowlandson's most elegant and effective works in terms of pure printmaking. The result is arguably the greatest of all military costume books.
Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781783318889
In this volume are presented some of Thomas Rowlandson's most elegant and effective works in terms of pure printmaking. The result is arguably the greatest of all military costume books.
Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781783319916
Born on 26 December 1776 in East Flanders, then an Austrian province, Charles Hamilton Smith was a descendent of a Flemish Protestant family named Smet. In England he attended school in Richmond, Surrey, but having returned to Flanders he went on to study at the Austrian Academy for Artillery and Engineers at Malines and Louvain. He was a talented artist and as such provided one of the most valuable references to military costume ever produced. In Costume of the Army of the British Empire, Hamilton Smith placed on record a detailed account of the several uniforms worn around the time of the Peninsular War. Originally issued in sets of four, the prints were produced from work drawn and etched by Hamilton Smith, then aquatinted by IC Stadler. Publication took place between March 1812 and June 1815 by the London firm of Colnaghi & Co who could be found in Cockspur Street. The printing was done by W Bulmer & Co of Cleveland Row. In this Guide, Ray Westlake has drawn together a full set of Hamilton Smith's scarce and extremely difficult-to-find colour plates. As well as the British Army, a number of lesser-painted formations have been featured, such as the West India Regiment, King's German Legion, Duke of Brunswick Oels's Corps, the York Light Infantry Volunteers, Royal Military Asylum and native troops of the East India Company. For some 30 of them, he has included copies of Hamilton Smith's original drawings used for the work. Also useful are the six colour charts showing facing and lace colours. With a total of 60 informative plates, this Guide will prove to be a welcome addition to the library of all those interested in military uniform.
Author : Joseph Grego
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Humor
ISBN :
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781555953614
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author : Egerton Castle
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Fencing
ISBN :
Author : Y. Harari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2008-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0230583881
For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.
Author : Francis Abell
Publisher : London Oxford University Press 1914.
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1914
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Joe Snader
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813184444
The captivity narrative has always been a literary genre associated with America. Joe Snader argues, however, that captivity narratives emerged much earlier in Britain, coinciding with European colonial expansion, the development of anthropology, and the rise of liberal political thought. Stories of Europeans held captive in the Middle East, America, Africa, and Southeast Asia appeared in the British press from the late sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, and captivity narratives were frequently featured during the early development of the novel. Until the mid-eighteenth century, British examples of the genre outpaced their American cousins in length, frequency of publication, attention to anthropological detail, and subjective complexity. Using both new and canonical texts, Snader shows that foreign captivity was a favorite topic in eighteenth-century Britain. An adaptable and expansive genre, these narratives used set plots and stereotypes originating in Mediterranean power struggles and relocated in a variety of settings, particularly eastern lands. The narratives' rhetorical strategies and cultural assumptions often grew out of centuries of religious strife and coincided with Europe's early modern military ascendancy. Caught Between Worlds presents a broad, rich, and flexible definition of the captivity narrative, placing the American strain in its proper place within the tradition as a whole. Snader, having assembled the first bibliography of British captivity narratives, analyzes both factual texts and a large body of fictional works, revealing the ways they helped define British identity and challenged Britons to rethink the place of their nation in the larger world.
Author : Ralph Ege
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Hopewell (N.J.)
ISBN :
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521864267
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.