The Georgian London Town House: Building, Collecting and Display

ISBN-13: 9781501337291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 364 str.

Kate Retford; Susanna Avery-Quash

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Preface Sir Nicholas Penny Acknowledgements Map: Locations of the Principal Georgian London town houses Discussed in this book List of illustrations Introduction Kate Retford Part One: Architecture, Furnishing, Decorating 1. A House Divided: Building Biographies and the Town House in Georgian London, Matthew Jenkins and Charlotte Newman 2. ‘You never saw such a scene of magnificence and taste’: Norfolk House after its Grand Reopening in 1756, Jeremy Howard 3. The Refurbishment of Northumberland House: Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London Town Houses, Adriano Aymonino and Manolo Guerci 4. Town and Country: The Spencers of Althorp, Joseph Friedman 5. The Regency Transformation of Burlington House, Piccadilly: The Architectural Drawings of Samuel Ware in the Royal Academy of Arts, Neil Bingham Part Two: Buying, Collecting, Display 6. The Display and Reception of Private Picture Collections in London Town Houses, 1780–1830, Susannah Homer 7. Superb Cabinets or Splendid Anachronisms? Anatomy, Natural History and Fine Arts in the London Town House, Helen McCormack 8. Artist in Residence: Joshua Reynolds at No 47, Leicester Fields, Donato Esposito 9. The Pictures at Carlton House, Desmond Shawe Taylor 10. Glitter and fashion in the ‘Louvre of London’: Animating Cleveland House, Anne Nellis Richter 11. John Julius Angerstein and the Development of his Art Collection at No 100, Pall Mall, London, Susanna Avery-Quash Afterword Joseph Friedman and Susanna Avery-Quash Select Bibliography Picture credits Index