Title The artist and the country house : a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 / John Harris

Published London : Sotheby Parke Bernet ; Totowa, N.J. : available from Biblio Distribution Center, 1979

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Description 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 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: page 366 Subject Art, British -- 17th century. Art, British -- 18th century. Art, British -- 19th century. Art, Modern -- 17th century -- Great Britain. Art, Modern -- 17th century. Art, Modern -- 18th century -- Great Britain. Art, Modern -- 17th century -- Great Britain. Art, Modern -- 18th century -- Great Britain. Art, Renaissance -- Great Britain. Art, Modern -- 18th century. Country homes in art. Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain. Country homes -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. Gardens in art. Art, Modern. Gardens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. Country homes -- England -- In art. Gardens -- England -- In art. Manors in art. Landscape painting, British. Manors -- England -- In art. Manors -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. LC no. 80458959 ISBN 0856670537

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