The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting

Washington D.C. and New Haven, CT: National Gallery of Art; Yale University Press, 1985. 680 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of a loan exhibition held at the National Gallery, November 3, 1985 to March 16, 1986. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Major blockbuster exhibition. CONTENTS: Temples of the arts, by Gervase Jackson-Stops; The power house, by Mark Girouard; Portraiture and the country house, by Oliver Millar; The Englishman in Italy, by Brinsley Ford; The British as collectors, by Francis Haskell; The backward look, by John Cornforth; The last hundred years, by Marcus Binney and Gervase Jackson-Stops; From castle to country house: The Tudor Renaissance; The Jacobean Long Gallery; Anglo-Dutch taste and restoration opulence; Triumph of the baroque; The grand tour: Lord Burlington and the Palladian revolution; Souvenirs of Italy; The sculpture rotunda; Augustan taste; The Dutch cabinet; Landscape and the picturesque; The gentleman collector: The country house library; Chinoiserie and porcelain; The sporting life; The Waterloo Gallery; The romantic vision: The Highlands and the Victorian spirit; The pre-Raphaelite era; Edwardian elegance and the continuing tradition; Epilogue: Life in the country house.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.