Recollections of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom
Recollections of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom

Author: Thomas Smith

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017080339

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Editing Lives
Editing Lives

Author: Jesse G. Swan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 161148541X

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Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and apprehension. This collection of new essays and studies by internationally acclaimed scholars, along with a select few who are less acclaimed but of distinct promise, provides a view into the contemporary state of scholarship in textual and biographical studies. The collection also means to be of especial interest to scholars of the British eighteenth century, by concentrating its evidence and argument on topics and subjects important to contemporary eighteenth-century studies. The volume is inspired by the extensive contributions to the fields by the late O M Brack, Jr.

R.H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur
R.H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur

Author: Dennis M. Read

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780754663997

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Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date of the engraver, editor, and arts enthusiast R. H. Cromek. Though he is best known today as William Blake's nemesis, Cromek made significant contributions to the vitality of the arts in nineteenth-century Britain. Read traces Cromek's early years as an accomplished engraver, his collaborations and falling out with Blake, and his editing and publishing ventures, showing him to be a pioneer who recognized the opportunities of the emerging market economy.

Recollections of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom
Recollections of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom

Author: Thomas Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108074544

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The British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom was founded as a private art gallery in 1805, and took over the lease of publisher John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. Its rich and noble subscribers (including the Prince of Wales, later George IV) patronised exhibitions of contemporary works, and also lent items for shows of Old Masters. The Institution also took in art students, and was a very popular public attraction in London: Jane Austen was among the many visitors from around the country. This 1860 book by Thomas Smith, a London historian, describes the founding and development of the Institution, with notices of its regular exhibitions and of special events such as the memorial dinner for Sir Joshua Reynolds. This is a fascinating account of a popular gallery in the first half of the nineteenth century, and of the tastes of its patrons and visitors.