xiii, 376 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Contents
Introduction: Continental precedents -- 1540 to the Commonwealth -- The Restoration and the Anglo-Netherlandish tradition -- Britannia Illustrata and the Knyff tradition -- The age of the estate cartographers and the garden conversations -- The country house and sporting art: John Wootton, Peter Tillemans and others -- George Lambert and the estate landscape painters -- Canaletto and the architectural topographers -- Gainsborough and the picturesque -- The art of Turner and Constable -- The unsophisticated view
Analysis
British paintings, 1540-1870 Special subjects: Country estates Critical studies