Rococo in England - Softcover

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Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 192 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Notes; "A symposium held 17-19 May 1984 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, under the auspices of the Georgian Group, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Association of Art Historians"--Opp. t.p. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; The artinatural style / John Harris -- Foreign decorators and plasterers in England / Alastair Laing -- Watteau and England / Marianne Roland Michel -- The Huguenots and English Rococo / Tessa Murdoch -- Trade cards and English Rococo / Michael Snodin -- Book illustrators mainly Gravelot and Bentley / Robert Halsband -- Frederick Prince of Wales : a patron of the Rococo / Stephen Jones -- Francis Hayman and the supper-box paintings for Vauxhall Gardens / Brian Allen -- Roubiliac : some problems / David Bindman -- Sir Henry Cheere and the response to the Rococo in English sculpture / Malcolm Baker -- Nicolas Gauron : a virtuoso modeller at Tournai and Chelsea / Timothy Clifford -- Isaac Ware and Chesterfield House / Roger White. Subjects; Victoria and Albert Museum. (1700 - 1799). Art, Rococo - England - Congresses. Art, English - 18th century - Congresses. Art, English - Congresses. Art, Modern - 17th-18th centuries - England - Congresses. Art - [18th Century - United Kingdom]. Art, Modern - 17th century - England - Congresses. Art, Modern - 18th century - England - Congresses. Art, English - History - 18th century - Congresses. Art, Georgian. Congresses and conventions. English visual arts - Rococo style - Conference proceedings. Art, British - 18th century. Genres; Bibliography. Conference proceedings. Conference publication. Illustrated.

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