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Book Review
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1038-40
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Reviewer:
Rowell, Christopher (Rowell, Christopher)
Subjects
subjects:
Irish architecture / Country houses / Domestic (house related concept) / Interiors / Inventories / Social history / Georgian / Buildings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Tessa Murdoch. 436 pp. incl. 18 col. + 41 b. & w. ills. (John Adamson, Cambridge, 2022), £75. ISBN 978–1–898565–17–8. | :
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House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life Edited by Conor Lucey. 216 pp. incl. 95 col. ills. (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2022), £45. ISBN 978–1–80151–026–4. | :
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Attributed works:
5. Sir Neil O’Neill, by John Michael Wright. 1680. Oil on canvas, 232.7 by 163.2 cm. (Tate).
Book Review
Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750–1830
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 186-187
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Reviewer:
Thom, Colin (Thom, Colin)
Subjects
styles:
Georgian
subjects:
Architecture / Architectural drawings / Artisans / Stonemasons / Carpenters / Buildings / Houses
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750–1830 By Conor Lucey. 264 pp. incl. 16 col. + 87 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018), £80. ISBN 978–1–5261–1994–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Elevation and plan of a row of houses in Dublin, by Michael Stapleton. c.1790. Ink and watercolour on paper, 48.9 by 36.7 cm. (National Library of Ireland, Dublin).
Book Review
South-East Marylebone (Survey of London, 51 and 52). Edited by Philip Temple, Colin Thom and Andrew Saint
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 171-172
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Reviewer:
Bradley, Simon (Bradley, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Ashbee, Charles Robert / Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 / Adam, James, 1732-1794 / Adam, William, 1738-1822 / Chambers, William / Butterfield, William / Harris, Thomas
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2099 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Drawings / Maps / Interiors
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Urban history / Urban planning / Cities / Architects / Architectural historians / Houses / Surveys / Illustrations / British architecture / Georgian
Book Review
Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland. By Patricia McCarthy
05/2017 | 1370 | 159
Pages: 400-401
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Reviewer:
O'Byrne, Robert (O'Byrne, Robert)
Subjects
places:
Ireland
subjects:
Country houses / Georgian / Irish / Attributions / Irish architecture / Architectural history
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
43. The painted entrance hall, Ardfert Abbey (Irish Architectural Archive, Irish Georgian Society Collection, Dublin)
Article
William Kent
06/2014 | 1335 | 156
Pages: 391-394
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Author:
Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
Subjects
artists:
Kent, William
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British sculpture / Exhibition reviews / British painting / Interior design / British architecture / Commissions / Furniture / Design / Biographies
subjects:
Georgian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
56. Monument to John Gay, sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack, perhaps designed by William Kent (Westminster Abbey, London)
Attributed works:
57. The Stone Hall, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, after alteration by William Kent. Original structure by James Gibbs or Colen Campbell
Attributed works:
58. The Stone Hall, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, after alteration by William Kent. Original structure by James Gibbs or Colen Campbell
Attributed works:
59. Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. Anonymous sixteenth-century painter/or attributed to Jan Gossaert. Engraved by George Vertue. The design of the frame is here attributed to William Kent (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
60. Console table, design here attributed to William Kent (English Heritage, Chiswick House, London; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
61. The elephant and the bookseller, etched and engraved by Paul Fondrinier [Fourdrinier] after a design by William Kent. From John Gay, Fables, London 1727 (Bard Graduate Center Library, New York)
Publication Received
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain. By Moira Goff, John Goldfinch, Karen Limper-Herz and Helen Peden.
06/2014 | 1335 | 156
Pages: 401
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Reviewer:
Retford, Kate (Retford, Kate)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 1710-1719 / 1720-1729 / 1730-1739 / 1740-1749 / 1750-1799 / 1800-1839
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Exhibitions / Georgian / Social history / Cultural history / British
Exhibition Review
Georgian portraits. Dorchester
04/2011 | 1297 | 153
Pages: 274-275
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Reviewer:
Kidson, Alex (Kidson, Alex)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
dates:
1740-1749 / 1750-1799
museums and institutions:
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Great Britain
places:
Dorchester / England
print:
Portraiture
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Portraits
subjects:
British painting / Georgian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County | institution: Dorset County Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
72. Lady Elizabeth Theresa Fox-Strangways and Elizabeth Kitty Acland, by Thomas Beach. 1777. Canvas, 124.5 by 100.3 cm. (Private collection; exh. Dorset County Museum, Dorchester).
Attributed works:
73. Thomas Coombes, aged 108, by William Hogarth. 1742. Canvas, 58 by 51.7 cm. (Private collection; exh. Dorset County Museum, Dorchester).
Attributed works:
74. George Pitt, 1st Lord Rivers, as Colonel of the Dorset Militia, by Thomas Gooch. 1782. Canvas, 66.5 by 61.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Dorset County Museum, Dorchester).
Book Review
Pictures and Popery: Art and Religion in England, 1660–1760
11/2008 | 1268 | 150
Pages: 774
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Reviewer:
Watney, Simon (Watney, Simon)
Subjects
dates:
1660-1719 / 1720-1729 / 1730-1739 / 1740-1749 / 1750-1759
places:
England
print:
Religious art
print:
British art
subjects:
Religious art / British painting / Churches / Georgian / Stuart / Catholicism / Protestantism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pictures and Popery: Art and Religion in England, 1660–1760 | author: Haynes, Clare
Book Review
Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses. A Tribute to John Cornforth
06/2007 | 1251 | 149
Pages: 418-419
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Reviewer:
Moore, Andrew (Moore, Andrew)
Subjects
art literature:
Cornforth, John
dates:
1700-1799
places:
England
print:
Cornforth, John
print:
Country houses
subjects:
Estate inventories / Inventories / Country houses / Social history / Cultural history / British / Collecting / Georgian / Houses
subjects:
English
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses. A Tribute to John Cornforth | editor: Murdoch, Tessa
Book Review
The King’s Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760–1840
01/2005 | 1222 | 147
Pages: 50-51
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Reviewer:
Kidson, Alex (Kidson, Alex)
Subjects
dates:
1760-1769 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1829 / 1830-1839
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
Cultural history / British / Patronage / Art history / Georgian / Bibliographies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The King’s Artists. The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760–1840 | author: Hoock, Holger , reviewer: Kidson, Alex
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