The Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Art: Ten British Pictures, 1740-1840

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2001. Cloth, xiii, 135 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Ten representative works of art in the world-renowned Huntington collection illustrate the richness and versatility of British painting during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Unlike previous periods, artists at this time employed many styles, borrowing from ancient Greece, India and China, from the Byzantine, and from the just-closing rococo period. Nearly 100 color illustrations place the ten primary pictures in artistic context." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Hogarth's Bishop Hoadly; Gainsborough's The blue boy; Reynolds' Mrs. Siddons as the tragic muse; Lawrence's Pinkie; Rowlandson's Mrs. Siddons rehearsing; Blake's Satan, sin, and death; Wilson's River scene with bathers; Gainsborough's The cottage door; Constable's View on the Stour near Dedham; Turner's Grand Canal, Venice.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.