British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875 by Katharine Baetjer - 2010-03-30

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010-03-30. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x1x11. Minor shelf wear to binding. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn with scuffs, creases, small scratches & small tear to head of spine. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2009. Oversized Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book and dust jacket in excellent, unmarked condition. International shipping will require additional postage due to bulk.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. Hardcover. VG/VG (Clean, bright and tight but art school ex-lib. with usual marks). Pearl grey cloth/boards; black lettering. Color-illus. dj with white lettering on spine. Mylar cover. xii + 308 pp. with 220 color and bw figures. This volume, the first catalogue ever published of the Metropolitan Museum's British paintings, contains 140 works by English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish artists as well as by a few others who were foreign-born but who worked primarily in England. Most of the paintings were acquired as gifts and bequests from prominent collections formed in the United States before World War II, including those of Jules Bache, Robert Lehman, Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe. The preponderance are portraits, although there are also genre scenes, landscapes, and subjects drawn from the Bible and mythology. Ranging in date from 1572 to 1868, the portraits offer a particularly intriguing look at… Read More

No Place: Metropolitan Museum of Art, no date ISBN 978-0-300-15509-9 Folio (11.75 in. by 9.5 in.); shrinkwrap; fine hardcover; fine dust jacket; crisp; clean; bright. Two copies of this book are available..