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Item Number: 102747
Title: British Drawings by Artists born before 1900
Author: Bindman, David
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788792023278
Description: with an essay by Chris Fischer. Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2008. 30cm., hardcover, 167pp. text and catalogue, 121 illus., several in color. English text. Summary: Since the collection consists of only 121 drawings it is inevitably not a comprehensive one, but some British artists are represented by important works and there are areas of great strength. The five drawings by John Constable cover most of his career and there are ten magnificent finished drawings by the great architect Robert Adam. The five Henry Fuseli drawings are very dramatic and representative, and the great tradition of British visual satire is represented by two drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and a fascinating anonymous drawing for a politica caricature of 1765. Seventeenth-century English drawing, especially portraiture, is particularly well represented by fine examples of Peter Oliver, Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller, and David Loggan, and there are some notable Pre-Raphaelite drawings by Edward Burne-Jones and William Holman Hunt and an exceptionally fine page from a sketchbook by Henry Moore. All these groups are supported by itneresting examples of less well-known artists, so within this relatively small collection it is possible to see many of the strengths of British Drawing from the early seventeenth into the twentieth century. (British Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings)
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