The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857
The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857

Author: Elizabeth A. Pergam

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781409418306

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An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. The book examines aesthetic, social, and economic issues of the day, and follows the Exhibition's reverberations in the development of art history and museum practices to the present day. A complete list of the exhibited works that are now in public collections throughout the world is also included.

Treasures of British Art
Treasures of British Art

Author: Robert Upstone

Publisher: Abbeville Press

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780789205414

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This richly illustrated Tiny Folio(TM) volume surveys British painting, watercolors, and sculpture from the sixteenth century to the present. With masters such as William Blake, William Hogarth, George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney, the Tate Gallery offers work to please every taste. The gallery, which was opened in London in the summer of 1897 by the Prince of Wales, is best known for its modern art collections, but-as this little compendium makes wonderfully clear-it encompasses the full sweep of British art, from ornate aristocratic portraits and vivacious hunting scenes to the Pre-Raphaelites languid femmes fatales.

Treasures of Britain
Treasures of Britain

Author: John Julius Norwich

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 9780393057409

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Offers alphabetical listings of more than two thousand locations, including gardens, historic houses, museums, and natural sites.

Treasures of the British Library
Treasures of the British Library

Author: Nicolas Barker

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780712304092

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In this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts. The Library's holdings cover collections spanning almost three millennia, from the establishment of the British Museum, which brought together the libraries of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton and Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, to the foundation of the British Library in 1973 and to some outstanding acquisitions of the present day.