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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Prints and Drawings"”.
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Goede Nacht: Images of the Night in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Visual Culture
… the night in Dutch art from seventeenth century, and of a number of different ways in which contemporary understandings of the nighttime informed artistic practice throughout the northern Netherlands. The dramatic increase in the production of such pictures, the impressive diversity of their …
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Ford Madox Brown: works on paper and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
… on the extensive collection of works on paper and related objects by Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) held at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (BMAG). It is the first academic study to use Brown's works on paper as the basis for discussion. In doing so it seeks to throw light on neglected areas …
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The Politics of the Grotesque: Goya's 'Caprichos' and French Literature and Graphic Art in the Nineteenth Century (c.1799-1868).
… PhD dissertation studies the influence of Goya’s prints in nineteenth-century France, focusing on Los Caprichos (1799). It first examines the spread of Goya’s work in the French market, which became the main receptor of the Spanish artist. The discovery of Goya in France goes in parallel with the …
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The Collecting Habits on an Eighteenth-Century Englishman of Discernment: Charles Rogers, FRS, FRA (1711-1784)
… collector, Charles Rogers FRS FSA (1711-1784), and his collection of prints and drawings, within the vibrant cultural and intellectual milieu of the eighteenth-century art world. Structured around three interrelated strands: Rogers’ role as a connoisseur in the eighteenth-century art world, the …
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The London Millwrights and Engineers 1775-1825
… study explores the history of a group of London handicraftsmen, the multi-skilled millwrights, who were power-transmission mechanics and rudimentary engineers, from 1775-1825. It reveals an organised group of old-style journeymen, who had developed a powerful grip on all aspects of the trade …
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Studien zur Ikonographie des Kunstbetrachters im 17., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
… try to reconstruct the attitudes, convictions and interests art was dealt with in various epochs with the help of contemporary writings. Pictorial representations of art viewers, however, have not been examined with regard to such questions systematically. This is the objective of the present …