Offers profiles of turn-of-the-century circle of British friends which included Prime Minister Balfour, Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, Lady Desborough, the four Tennant daughters, and other notables of London society

The Souls

History

Gere, Charlotte

Abdy, Jane

Europe

SIDGWICK JACKSON

The fine and decorative art collections of Britain and Ireland : the National Art-Collections Fund book of art galleries and museums

Arts & Photography

Chapel, Jeannie

Decorative Arts & Design

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior

Abrams

European & American jewellery, 1830-1914

Heinemann

Arts and Crafts in Britain and America

Anscombe, Isabelle

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

In the nineteenth century, proud householders commissioned painters to record their dwellings, much as today's owners might take a photograph. These charming watercolors portrayed with faithful accuracy the shape of rooms, the organization of the furniture, the patterns of carpets, or the drape of window hangings. People of all kinds had their homes immortalized, from humble vicars and artists to the grandest families of Europe. Published to accompany an extraordinary exhibition of watercolor views at The Frick Collection in New York, this handsome volume includes illustrations of more than sixty nineteenth-century interiors: from cottages to palaces, from an emperor's chambers in Portugal to the bedroom of a Russian dacha. They originate from two private collections - one American, the other European - which together provide a unique survey of this highly specialized genre. One group offers an illustrated history of interiors, spanning the heyday of these drawings. The other comes from an album compiled for the princely Wittgenstein family, and commemorates the houses they owned in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and England. Charlotte Gere, the noted authority on nineteenth-century decoration, provides commentaries which perfectly complement the reproductions. Combining consummate scholarship with a rich background knowledge of the period, she identifies objects, describes fashions in furnishings, quotes from travel diaries and memoirs, and explains the social and family functions of each room. Perhaps no other form of art provides such a vivid picture of how people lived in the nineteenth century. Here is a chance to enjoy the beauty and the fascination of these delightful mementos from a vanished way of life.

Nineteenth Century Interiors: An Album of Watercolors

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Thames&Hudson

Book is about the jewelry and the designers and manufacturers.

American & European jewelry, 1830-1914

Crown, Publishers

This book rewrites the history of jewellery in the age of Victoria. The 'age of Victoria' is taken in its widest sense to encompass jewellery made throughout Europe and America, displayed at the great international exhibitions and distributed through foreign trade, illustrated publications and a burgeoning tourist industry. Throughout, links with other disciplines will provide both the specialist and the non-specialist with the information to understand how jewellery permeated all walks and conditions of life in the 19th century. The focus of the book is on the attitudes of owners to their jewellery and the symbolic weight that it was expected to carry. Rather than concentrating on the major figures at the top end of the jewellery trade, or indeed offering a chronological survey of the development of jewellery styles and fashions, it is oriented towards the social aspects of owning, wearing and displaying jewellery. The authors show, for example, how novelists use jewellery to add a moral or metaphorical dimension to a character, while jewels depicted in portraits would often have disclosed multiple messages which could be immediately decoded by the viewer. The achievements of science, the fascination with nature and the Victorian sense of humour are all embodied in jewellery. Topics discussed in depth include the importance of jewellery in the life of the Queen herself, jewellery and dress, the language of jewellery, the cult of novelty, the importance of nationalism in the revival of historical styles, and the contribution of archaeological discoveries. The volume is sumptuously illustrated with contemporary reportage, photographs and portraits as well as examples of jewellery from the British Museum and other collections.

Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria: A Mirror to the World

RUDOE,Judy

History & Criticism

BRITISH MUSEUM

With 129 black and white plates and 21 figures in the text.

Victorian jewellery design

William Kimber

A bright fine copy of the book and the jacket is near fine as well. Still has about a new appearance.

Art Collections of Great Britain and Ireland

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

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