CATALOGUE OF BRITISH OIL PAINTING, 1820-1860 de Parkinson, Ronald - 1990-01-01

Victoria and Albert Museum; H.M.S.O, 1990-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Victoria and Albert Museum; H.M.S.O. [Published date: 1990]. Hard cover, 314 pp. First Edition. Very good in very good condition. Green textured paper over boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] ^From household names such as J M W Turnerto the all-but-forgotten George Travers, andthrough the hierarchy of genres from high artto animals, fruit, flowers, sea and landscapes,the five hundred nineteenth-century paintingsin this volume form about half of the V & A’s complete collection of oil paintings, Many of the nineteenth-century paintings covered here were given to the museum by its founders ~ the earliest example was the remarkableSheepshanks gift in 1857. Entries are arranged alphabetically by name of artist, and the majority of the paintings are illustrated. Brief biographical notes are included, with a note on the circumstances of the work’s commission, details of its laterhistory, and, in some instances, its physical condition.