Paul Mellon's Legacy
Paul Mellon's Legacy

Author: John Baskett

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0300117469

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Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain’s national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon’s extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center’s collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

A Treatise Upon the Law of Legacies, 1799 (Classic Reprint)
A Treatise Upon the Law of Legacies, 1799 (Classic Reprint)

Author: R. S. Donnison Roper

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780331525779

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Excerpt from A Treatise Upon the Law of Legacies, 1799 The principal Part of this Treatife is compiled from Notes colleeted during the Author's Gourfe of Reading as a Student he has been indqced to add to, methodize, and publiih them, under the Idea, that as no Book within his Recollec tion has fully and fingly treated upon the Sub jeet, the prefent Undertaking might not be altogether unferviceable to the Profeflion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.