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Item Number: 126758
Title: Placing Faces: The Portrait and the English Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Perry, Gill (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780719090394
Description: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. 25cm., hardcover, 298pp., 19 color, 53 b&w illus. Contents: 1. The Topography of the Conversation Piece: A Walk around Wanstead – Kate Retford. 2. Life in the Library – Susie West. 3. Marble, Memory and Theatre: Portraiture and the Sculpture Gallery at Chatsworth – Alison Yarrington. 4. Dirty Dancing at Knole: Portraits of Giovanna Baccelli and the Performance of 'Public Intimacy' – Gill Perry. 5. 'Necessary, usefull, easy and delightfull'; the Production and Display of Pastel Portraits in the English Country House – Ruth Kenny. 6. Georgiana at Althorp: Spencer Family Portraits 1755–1783 – Emma Barker. 7. Commemorating Captain Cook in the Country Estate – Harriet Guest. 8. Framing Sir Francis: Lady Anne Stanhope and the Corruption of Civic Masculinity – Jordan Vibert. 9. The Waterloo Chamber before the Battle of Waterloo – Desmond Shawe Taylor.
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