The romantic interior : the British collector at home, 1750-1850 / by Clive Wainwright.
Published / Created:
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1989.
Physical Description:
vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustrations 60, 68, 72, 74, and 88 are from the Lewis Walpole Library.
Contents:
Introduction -- Precedents -- The Trade -- The Furnishings -- Strawberry Hill -- Fonthill Abbey -- Abbotsford: the beginning -- Abbotsford: the completion -- Charlecote Park -- Goodrich Court -- Conclusion -- Notes to the text -- Index.
Subject Terms:
Interior decoration -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Interior decoration -- England -- History -- 19th century. | Art, Medieval. | Art, Renaissance. | Art -- Collectors and collecting -- England. | Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) | Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797.