Catalogue of the Library of Sir Edward W. Watkin, Bart., M.P., Rose Hill, Northenden
Author : Sir Edward William Watkin
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Sir Edward William Watkin
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Sir Edward William Watkin
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Page : 161 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Private libraries
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Author : Maggs Bros
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 1986
Category : English literature
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Author : J. E. Cornish
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300095364
Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in April of 1861, Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest “Great Picture”—a painting titled The North. Despite favorable reviews, the painting failed to find a buyer. Faced with this unexpected setback, Church added a broken mast to the foreground and changed the work’s title to The Icebergs. He then shipped the painting to London, where it was finally sold to an English railroad magnate and subsequently disappeared from view for 116 years. This beautiful book tells the fascinating story of The Icebergs and provides a detailed look at the cycle of fame, neglect, and resuscitation of both this masterwork and Church’s career. In 1979, The Icebergs sold at auction for $2.5 million, at the time the highest amount ever paid for an American painting. The sale coincided with an upswing in the popularity and acclaim accorded to American landscape painting, catalyzing the market for American art and contributing to a revival in the prestige of Church and the Hudson River School. Drawing on extensive interviews with many of the people involved with the painting’s rediscovery, sale, and eventual donation to the Dallas Museum of Art, the author considers the way marketing has defined The Icebergs.
Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 898 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : Henry Colin Gray Matthew
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Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : British
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55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1845
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Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 1845
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Page : 1276 pages
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Release : 1845
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