Everyone has heard of the workhouse. But exactly what was it? Who went there? And how did an institution so universally hated come to be set up? This title tells the story from its first beginnings in Elizabethan times until the final demise of the union in the 1940s.

Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Ross, Doran H.

Marzio, Frances

Crafts & Hobbies

Merrell Publishers

First edition. A book to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. An exploration of bindings, illuminations, calligraphy and title-page design of Irish printed books and manuscripts from the last five centuries. Beginning with reference to the Gaelic scribal tradition which had survived from the Middle Ages, the author charts the development of the book arts in Ireland, with emphasis on the Rococo title-pages of the eighteenth century, and the exquisite bindings for which Irish artisans have alway been famous. Lavishly illustrated throughout the text, along with seventy-eight plates, showing bindings, title-pages, and illustrations, in gorgeous color, with full descriptions following. 175+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

Five Hundred Years of the Art of the Book in Ireland: 1500 To the Present

Arts & Photography

McDonnell, Joseph

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

European Paintings from The Bowes Museum

Degas: Die Portraits

Baumann, Felix

Karabelnik, Marianne

Leonardo Da Vinci: a Curious Vision: Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle

Clayton, Martin

This book is the culmination of over twenty years' work by Mitchell and Roberts, widely known frame historians and consultants. They have undertaken photographic surveys of frames in most major museums in Europe and North America, as well as in many historic houses and exhibitions. This analysis of frame styles and their inter-relationships over eight centuries is organised by nationality and period with fifty-six carefully constructed diagrams in the form of framemakers' pattern books, interspersed with thirty-eight plates of framed paintings. Components are drawn directly from photographs of 268 frames original or contemporary to their pictures.

A History of European Picture Frames

Mitchell, Paul

Roberts, Lynn

History & Criticism

This highly acclaimed landmark publication provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the most familiar frame styles associated with the major European artistic movements from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. By considering the frame historically, in both its wider physical context and its formal relationship to the work of art, this detailed visual history reveals the extent to which a frame can enhance our appreciation of a picture.

Frameworks: Form, Function & Ornament in European Portrait Frames

From the 1997 exhibition from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, which brought, for the first time, the original watercolors from which Catesby prepared the etchings which accompanied the published volumes of his expeditions to the southern colonies of North America from 1712 to 1719, and again from 1722 to 1726. Also included are works produced by Catesby after his final return to England, along with a number of drawings by his London colleagues. The originals were stored away since their purchase by George III in 1768, keeping them wonderfully fresh. A beautiful look at the flora and fauna of the eastern seaboard of North America, some of which are extinct. With the book plate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. 160 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 4to..

Mark Catesby's Natural History of America: The Watercolors from the Royal Library Windsor Castle

McBurney, Henrietta

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Victorian Fairy Painting re veals the enormous popularity of the fairy world as depicted in Victorian English painting, literature, and the theatre '

Victorian Fairy Painting

Gere, Charlotte

Trimpe, Pamela White

In the years following World War II, young artists and designers looked to the future for their inspiration. "Austerity to Affluence" covers British furniture, textiles and haute couture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, domestic equipment and product design, graphic design, and fine art, witnessing the development of Contemporary design. 220 illustrations, 70 in color.

Austerity to Affluence: British Art & Design 1945-1962

CHAMBERLAIN, RICHARD

Stapleton, Annamarie

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