Gainsborough in Bath / Susan Sloman
by Sloman, Susan. Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788). Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0300097115
- ISBN 13
- 9780300097115
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About This Item
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of Laurence with the owner's armorial bookplate. Physical description; 266 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. Notes; Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-254) and index. Contents; 1. Bath: 'the busiest idle place in the world' -- 2. Mrs Margaret Gainsborough: 'a prince's daughter' -- 3. 'Mr. Gainsborough' Arrives: Bath (1758-1759) -- 4. 'Your Likeness Man, Tho Gainsborough' -- 5. 'Daubing away for the Exhibition': Show Pictures and Exhibitions -- 6. Portraits 'for Bread' and Portraits for Friends -- 7. 'Nature sat to Mr. Gainsborough' -- 8. 'Something more elevated': The Intellectual Elite of Bath -- 9. 'The coquetry of nature' -- 10. Gainsborough of Bath -- App. I. Artists in Bath in the Eighteenth Century -- App. II. Thomas Gainsborough's Account at Hoare's Bank, Fleet Street -- App. III. Gainsborough's Portrait Prices -- App. IV. Gainsborough's Exhibited Portraits. Subjects; Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788). Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Homes and haunts England Bath. Gainsborough, Thomas (English painter and draftsman, 1727-1788). Civilization. Painters. Painting, British. Painters England ; Biography. Painters, British 18th century ; Biography. Artists England ; Biography. Bath (England) Civilization 18th century. Bath (England) Intellectual life 18th century. Bath (Somerset). Somerset - Bath. Bath (England) Civilization 18th century. Bath (Avon). Genres; Bibliography. Biographies. Biography. Biography. Illustrated.
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- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Gainsborough in Bath / Susan Sloman
- Author
- Sloman, Susan. Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788). Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300097115
- ISBN 13
- 9780300097115
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2002
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