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| Author | : N. J. McCamley |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2003-03-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783379049 |
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This book explains for the first time the full story of the wartime adventures of Britain's greatest art treasures. At first the pictures and other artifacts were distributed amongst a number of large country houses. Initially the owners of these houses almost fought one another for the right to house the Treasures. Later, when further accommodation was needed for treasures from the provincial museums, the tables turned and the Office of Works was reduced to bribing owners by promising that they would be spared billetees, and that their houses would be immune from requisitioning. By mid 1940 however, circumstances transpired that made the country houses untenable. German air bases in northern France made the whole of Britain vulnerable. Eventually two deep underground repositories were constructed, one in Wales and one in Wiltshire, and by the end of 1942 virtually all the cultural heritage of the nation was concentrated there. Building and operation of these underground treasure houses did not, however, go smoothly, as described here.
| Author | : Gustav Friedrich Waagen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 1854 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
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The set owned by Sir George Scharf, director of the National Portrait Gallery. Scharf has annotated and interleaved these pages with manuscripts and letters received, newspaper clippings, and printed pamphlets, in effect producing an unpublished corrected and enlarged second edition. In a fair copy of a letter to John Murray (1855 March 16), Scharf cites numerous errata and inaccuracies in Waagen. Scharf had access to the great historic homes and private collections of art in England and based his revisions on first-hand knowledge. Newspaper clippings record the loss, dispersal or sale of the collections originally surveyed by Waagen. Letters received from connoisseurs, collectors, and artists include Lord Cowper, Lady Louisa Egerton, Frederic George Stephens, W.A. Scott Robertson, George Redford, the Earl of Ellesmere, R.S. Holford, and Sir Charles Lock Eastlake. Printed materials include "A Catalogue of the Orleans' Italian pictures ..." (London, 1798) and the text of Scharf's paper on the paintings in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1862 Nov. 20). The first volume of the set contains a dedication to Scharf from the translator, Lady Eastlake.
| Author | : Gustav Friedrich Waagen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 1854 |
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| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Charles Henry Collins BAKER |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1913 |
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Download The Art Treasures of Great Britain. Edited by C. H. Collins-Baker. [Plates, with Explanatory Letterpress.]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Gustav Friedrich Waagen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Download Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated MSS, &c., &c., by Dr Waagen; [translated from the German MS. by Lady Eastlake]; in Three Volumes. [1st Ed. Reprinted; with an Introduction by R. W. Lightbown] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Gustav Friedrich Waagen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 1854 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
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The set owned by Sir George Scharf, director of the National Portrait Gallery. Scharf has annotated and interleaved these pages with manuscripts and letters received, newspaper clippings, and printed pamphlets, in effect producing an unpublished corrected and enlarged second edition. In a fair copy of a letter to John Murray (1855 March 16), Scharf cites numerous errata and inaccuracies in Waagen. Scharf had access to the great historic homes and private collections of art in England and based his revisions on first-hand knowledge. Newspaper clippings record the loss, dispersal or sale of the collections originally surveyed by Waagen. Letters received from connoisseurs, collectors, and artists include Lord Cowper, Lady Louisa Egerton, Frederic George Stephens, W.A. Scott Robertson, George Redford, the Earl of Ellesmere, R.S. Holford, and Sir Charles Lock Eastlake. Printed materials include "A Catalogue of the Orleans' Italian pictures ..." (London, 1798) and the text of Scharf's paper on the paintings in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1862 Nov. 20). The first volume of the set contains a dedication to Scharf from the translator, Lady Eastlake.
| Author | : Manchester art treasures exhib |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 118 |
| Release | : 1857 |
| Genre | : Art Treasures Exhibition |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Caroline Shenton |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2021-11-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1529387469 |
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'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research, Caroline Shenton has done her unlikely heroes proud' - Lucy Worsley As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries and archives formulated ingenious plans to send the nation's highest prized objects to safety. Using stately homes, tube tunnels, slate mines, castles, prisons, stone quarries and even their own homes, a dedicated bunch of unlikely misfits packed up the nation's greatest treasures and, in a race against time, dispatched them throughout the country on a series of top-secret wartime adventures. National Treasures highlights a moment from our history when an unlikely coalition of mild-mannered civil servants, social oddballs and metropolitan aesthetes became the front line in the heritage war against Hitler. Caroline Shenton shares the interwoven lives of ordinary people who kept calm and carried on in the most extraordinary of circumstances in their efforts to save the Nation's historic identity.
| Author | : Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake |
| Publisher | : Palala Press |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2018-02-17 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781377780641 |
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| Author | : Robert Upstone |
| Publisher | : Abbeville Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1998-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780789205414 |
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This richly illustrated Tiny Folio(TM) volume surveys British painting, watercolors, and sculpture from the sixteenth century to the present. With masters such as William Blake, William Hogarth, George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney, the Tate Gallery offers work to please every taste. The gallery, which was opened in London in the summer of 1897 by the Prince of Wales, is best known for its modern art collections, but-as this little compendium makes wonderfully clear-it encompasses the full sweep of British art, from ornate aristocratic portraits and vivacious hunting scenes to the Pre-Raphaelites languid femmes fatales.
