9780853170495 - Leslie Wilcox von Carr, Frank G.G. (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 11 1/2" x 8 7/8", 47 pages of text, 2 tipped-in colour plates, black and white plates. Introductory notes, followed by catalogue raisonne of 267 paintings covering from 1946 - 1976, a proportion of which are illustrated in the following plates. Hb, handsome in light blue buckram, silver titling to spine and upper board, fine in very good dw.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The story is also told of another of his famous paintings, the magnificent 'Battle of Trafalgar' now in the National Maritime Museum, but formerly one of the show pieces in the Painted Hall at Greenwich. A group of visitors, conducted by an old Naval pen-sioner, was standing before it, spellbound in admiration. 'Yes', admitted their ancient cicerone, himself a veteran of the great battle, 'That's all right as far as it goes, but we did ought to 'ave 'ad 'uggins'. Breath-taking as was Turner's power to stir the emotions, to the sailor who had been there, his ships were a fantasy. Painted by W. J. Huggins, they would have been real. It is the rare genius of Wilcox that he can both seize and visualise the drama as brill-iantly as if he himself had been present and witnessed with his own eyes the events that he depicts so accurately, while at the same time painting the ships in all their glory as they truly were; ships that seamen could sail and handle, real ships, not just stage prop-erties, however beautiful. In his.

Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 47 pages; 47p, [38] leaves of plates : ill.(incl 2 col) ; 30cm. Catalogue of the artist's work. - Limited ed. of 600 copies. - Col. ill. tipped in. Subjects: Wilcox, L. A. (Leslie A.) -- Catalogs. Marine painting, English. Ships in art - Catalogs. Marine art, British -- Catalogues. 2 Kg.