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Book Review
Zwischen Karten: Alexander von Humboldt’s ‘Atlas géographique et physique des régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent’ (Ars et Scientia, 25)
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 473-474
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Reviewer:
Grüner, Magdalena (Grüner, Magdalena )
Subjects
subjects:
Humboldt, Alexander von / Maps
subjects:
Topography
Reviewed Items
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Zwischen Karten: Alexander von Humboldt’s ‘Atlas g ographique et physique des r gions  quinoxiales du Nouveau Continent’ (Ars et Scientia, 25) By Amrei Buchholz. 267 pp. incl. 16 col. + 28 b. & w. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2020),  54.50. ISBN 978–3–11–063807–3. | :
Book Review
The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Architecture, Topography and Military Maps (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series C: Prints, Part 2). Edited by Mark McDonald
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 458-460
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Reviewer:
Connors, Joseph (Connors, Joseph)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 1588-1657
subjects:
Topography / Architecture / Maps
subjects:
Italian art
works:
The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo
Reviewed Items
works:
The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Architecture, Topography and Military Maps (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Series C: Prints, Part 2) Edited by Mark McDonald. Three vols, 901 pp. incl. 1634 b. & w. ills. (Harvey Miller, London, 2019),  245. ISBN 978–1–912554–21–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. The Siege of La Rochelle, after J r me Bachot, published by Melchior Tavernier II and Antoine Herault, Paris. 1630–31. Etching and engraving, 79.6 by 90 cm. (Windsor Castle, King’s Military Collection, RCIN 722028.a).
Exhibition Review
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company. Wallace Collection, London
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 341-344
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Reviewer:
Weekes, Ursula (Weekes, Ursula )
Subjects
artists:
Shaikh Zain-ud-din, act. 18th c. / Shaikh Muhammad Amir / Ghulam Ali / Das, Bhawani / Das, Ram
artists:
Yellapah of Vellore
artists:
Ram, Sita
dates:
2020-2030
subjects:
East India Company / Colonialism / Indian School
subjects:
Natural history / Botanical drawings / Topography / Portraiture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company Wallace Collection, London 4th December 2019–19th April | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Lesser adjutant, by an unknown artist. c.1775–85. Ink and watercolour on paper, 61 by 40.6 cm. (Private collection; exh. Wallace Collection, London).
Attributed works:
17. A station palanquin with an army officer, by Yellapah of Vellore. c.1828. Opaque watercolour on paper, 35 by 50 cm. (British Library, London; exh. Wallace Collection, London).
Exhibition Review
When Artists Drew Maps: Views and Figures of France in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Archives nationales, Paris
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 946-950
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Reviewer:
Gajewski, Alexandra (Gajewski, Alexandra)
Subjects
artists:
Dipre, Nicolas / Cousin, Jean, the Elder / Quesnel, François / Morant, Conrad
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Archives Nationales, Paris, France
places:
France
subjects:
Landscapes (visual works) / Maps / Topographical views / Topography / Ptolemy / Views / Perspective
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Detail from Course of the River Aa between Wizernes and Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), by Olivier Bissot and Pierre Pol. 1459. Paper with ink and gouache. (Bibliothe que d’agglomération du Pays de Saint- Omer, MS 1489; exh. Archives nationales, Paris).
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8. Argentoratum (Strasbourg), by Conrad Morant. Copy made in 1900 of the original from 1548. Paper and colour, 63.5 by 91.5 cm. (Archives municipales, Strasbourg; exh. Archives nationales, Paris).
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9. Forest rights (gruerie) in Nanteuil-le- Haudouin (Oise), by Jehan Monnerye. 1609. Parchment, ink and colour, 194 by 123 cm. (Archives nationales, Paris).
Book Review
Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 351
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
artists:
Hoefnagel, Joris (Georg) / Hoefnagel, Jacob
media:
Illuminated manuscripts / Miniatures (paintings) / Cabinet pictures (paintings) / Topography / Drawings / Prints
subjects:
Catalogues raisonnés / Biographies / Attributions / Collections / Flemish School
Reviewed Items
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Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600 By Thea Vignau-Wilberg. | :
Book Review
Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630–1730. By David Jacques
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 731-732
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Reviewer:
Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd (Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd; Gowan, Todd Longstaffe-)
Subjects
subjects:
Landscape gardening
subjects:
Country houses
subjects:
Topography
subjects:
Parks
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630–1730. By David Jacques | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
54. Wanstead House in Essex the seat of the Rt Hon.ble Viscount Lord Castlemain[e]. by Johannes Kip after a drawing by Leonard Knyff. c. 1713 (Essex Record Office, Chelmsford)
Article
Horace Vernet’s ‘Orient’: photography and the Eastern Mediterranean in 1839, part I: a daguerrean excursion
04/2016 | 1357 | 158
Pages: 264-271
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Author:
Hannoosh, Michèle (Hannoosh, Michèle)
Subjects
artists:
Vernet, Horace
artists:
Goupil-Fesquet, Frédéric
dates:
1830-1859
places:
Algeria / Egypt / Palestine / Syria / Turkey / Morocco
subjects:
French painting / Orientalism / Photographs / Photography / Daguerreotypes / Travel accounts
subjects:
Topography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
38. Self-portrait, by Horace Vernet. 1835 (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
Attributed works:
39. The Arab tale-teller, by Horace Vernet. 1833 (Wallace Collection, London)
Attributed works:
40. Rebecca at the well, by Horace Vernet. 1833 (Location unknown)
Attributed works:
41. Central motif of the vault, Turkish Chamber, designed by Horace Vernet. 1833 (Villa Medici, Rome)
Attributed works:
42. Judah and Tamar, by Horace Vernet. 1840 (Wallace Collection, London)
Attributed works:
43. Portrait of Soliman Pasha, by Horace Vernet. 1840 (Location unknown, formerly in the collection of Sherif Sabry Pasha, Cairo). Fig.6 from J.M. Carré: Voyageurs et écrivains français en Egypte, Cairo 1932, II, p.54
Attributed works:
44. Arabs travelling in the desert, by Horace Vernet. 1843 (Wallace Collection, London)
Publication Received
Coney Island. Visions of an American Dreamland 1861–2008, Edited by Robin Jaffee Frank, with contributions by Charles Denson, Josh Glick, John F. Kasson and Charles Musser. | Mike Kelley: Educational Complex. By John Miller.|David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material. Edited by Okwui Enwezor and Zoë Ryan in consultation with Peter Allison, with essays by David Adjaye, Peter Allison, Okwui Enwezor, Andrea Phillips, Zoë Ryan and Mabel O. Wilson.
02/2016 | 1355 | 158
Pages: 136
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Reviewer:
Wan, Katy (Wan, Katy)
Subjects
dates:
1860-1869 / 1870-1879 / 1880-1889 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009
places:
New York
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Cultural history / American (United States of America) / Photographs / Topography / Fairs
Exhibition Review
The art of the garden
06/2015 | 1347 | 157
Pages: 427-428
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Reviewer:
Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd (Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd; Gowan, Todd Longstaffe-)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, Great Britain / Royal Collection, (Great Britain)
places:
London / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Gardens / Landscape gardening / Landscape architecture / Topography / Landscapes (visual works) / Royalty
Illustrations
Attributed works:
49. Vine branch and black grapes (Vitis vinifera) with adult caterpillar and chrysalis of gaudy sphinx moth (Eumorpha labruscae), by Maria Sibylla Merian (Royal Collection Trust; exh. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London)
Attributed works:
50. Detail from A view from the Palace from the North Side of the Lake, The Green House & The Temple of Arethusa, in the Royal Garden at Kew, by William Elliot after William Woollett (Royal Collection Trust; exh. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London)
Western art unattributed:
48. Charles II presented with a pineapple. British School. c.1677 (Royal Collection Trust; exh. The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London)
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