Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Art: Ten British Pictures, 1740-1840 - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 135 pages; Physical desc. : xiii, 135 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Originally published under title: Ten British pictures (1740-1840) --San Marino, Calif : Huntington Library, 1971. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (San Marino) --Painting, British --18th/19th centuries --1740-1840 --Painting and paintings --History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800. Summary: Ten representative works of art in the world-renowned Huntington collection illustrate the richness and versatility of British painting during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Artists at this time employed many styles, borrowing from ancient Greece, India and China, from the Byzantine, and from the just-closing Rococo period. Nearly 100 colour illustrations place the ten primary pictures in artistic context.