East Anglian Silver describes a wealth of important silver articles made in the region which are now to be found in museums and private collections in Britain, America and Australia, as well as in churches of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.

East Anglian Silver 1550-1750: 1550-1750

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

John Adamson Dist A/C

The partnership of Philip Rundell and John Bridge began in London toward the end of the eighteenth century and went on to become the greatest firm of goldsmiths, jewelers and medalists of the age. Its stable of distinguished artists, headed by the sculptor John Flaxman, was the driving force in the adoption of a new imperial style

Royal Goldsmiths: The Art of Rundell & Bridge 1797-1843

Business & Money

Hartop, Christopher

Economics

Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, these great house inventories, document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them.

Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Ho

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Accompanying a touring exhibition, opening at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and moving in 2007 to venues in the United States and Australia, this highly illustrated catalogue showcases highli ghts from Paul Cahn's collection of magnificent silver bearing the mark of the illustrious Hugueno t silversmith, Paul de Lamerie.

Beyond the Maker s Mark: Paul de Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection

Alcorn, Ellenor

History

Marking the founding bequest in 1708 of La Providence, the French Hospital for the Huguenot community in England, this book charts its history and collections.

The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot History and Collections

Murdoch, Tessa

Vigne, Randolp

Using an important collection, the author charts the use of geometric shapes in English silver, as well as Asian influences, during two centuries, 1630-1830.

Geometry and the Silversmith: The Domcha Collection

Sir Robert Walpole's collection of Old Masters, and the building and furnishing of Houghton, the great Palladian house he built in Norfolk, have been the focus of extensive study in recent years, but his silver has not received the same attention. However, the discovery of inventories in the National Archives has allowed a picture to be built up of the sheer scale of Walpole's silver holdings, which were, like everything else about the man, larger than life. What silver that survives includes some of the most celebrated pieces of Georgian silver, such as the square seal salver made by Paul de Lamerie and engraved by William Hogarth. Walpole probably had more silver than any of his contemporaries with the exception of the king, and the scale of his entertaining at court, in Downing Street and at Houghton was gargantuan. Contents:Chronology of Sir Robert Walpole's lifeSir Robert Walpole's SilverAppendices (including plate in the Strawberry Hill sale, 1842)

Sir Robert Walpole's Silver: Special issue of Silver Studies, no. 30

•An unusual and highly individual approach to the city, merging sprawling aerial shots with close-up and intimate studies of people, buildings, and interiors •Each photograph bears the unmistakable stamp of Tim Rawle, an internationally acclaimed photographer for his Cambridge portfolio. Cambridge is a city of contrasts. Both a small market town in the east of England and the home of an ancient university of world renown, it is at once provincial and universal in its appeal, local and international in outlook. But what made this place in a remote corner of England so attractive to those who first settled there? How did Town and Gown grow up together? How did Cambridge evolve into the bustling, university city it is today? In the first part of this book, Tim Rawle gives a survey of the city's history from its very beginnings, with an underlying architectural viewpoint. A special section on the evolving layout of the university's colleges completes the story and shows how they have shaped the Cambridge townscape over the last 700 years. This colorful book overflows with a stunning collection of photographs taken by the author, who lives in Cambridge.

Cambridge

Travel

RAWLE, TIM

Europe

In the story of English architecture, and the history of Cambridge University in particular, Downing College occupies a very special place. Founded in 1800 through the will of the third Sir George Downing, Baronet, it was the first new college to be built in Cambridge for more than 200 years; the first major scheme in the neo-Classical Greek Revival style; and the first instance of the spacious campus plan in collegiate architecture, acting as the precursor to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia and the American campus universities that were to follow. For the last 215 years the College has been fully committed to the defining style of its original buildings for all subsequent additions to its spacious site in the centre of Cambridge, and the story of its architecture is traced from the earliest plans and ideas through to the college of today. Contents: 1. The Cambridge Colleges before 1800 and Downing; 2. Born of a Romantic Age: Downing, Last of the Old Colleges, First of the New; 3. Concepts and Ideas: the Competition to Build Downing's College; 4. Twentieth Century Architects to 1983; 5. Contemporary Downing and the Architecture of Quinlan and Francis Terry; 6. Recent Projects.

A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College, Cambridge

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Amassed over nearly forty years, the David Russell collection brings together a stunning array of edge and boring tools from Britain, continental Europe and North America, thus providing a broad survey of hand tool-making from prehistory to today. All the tools are illustrated with James Austin's photographs, with details and marks shown where appropriate. Special attention is given to planes, and the great British makers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are discussed in depth. Since prehistoric times there has been a never-ending quest for better ways to cut and bore wood. Along the way this has produced a wide variety of hand tools, and there are many where beauty and function meet. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including collectors, craftsmen, industrial archaeologists and social and economic historians, as well as historians of material culture.

Antique Woodworking Tools: Their Craftsmanship from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century

Russell, David R.

Lesage, Robert

Crafts & Hobbies

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