Producing the past : aspects of antiquarian culture and practice 1700-1850
1999, First Edition. Aldershot: Ashgate. Fine title-blocked cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #379719
ISBN: 1840142758
Physical description: xxiii, 214 p. : illustrated. Notes: Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index. English. Contents: Introduction : 'Mine are the subjects rejected by the historian' : antiquarianism, history and the making of modern culture / Lucy Peltz and Martin Myrone -- Ceci n'est pas un monument : Vetusta monumenta and antiquarian aesthetics / Maria Grazia Lolla -- Graphic antiquarianism in eighteenth-century Britain : the career and reputation of George Vertue (1684-1756) / Martin Myrone -- British antiquity and antiquarian illustration / Sam Smiles -- 'A small journey into the country' : William Stukeley and the formal landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury / David Haycock -- The true rust of the Barons' Wars : gardens, ruins and the national landscape / Stephen Bending -- Caspar David Friedrich and national antiquarianism in Northern Germany / Johann J.K. Reusch -- The extra-illustration of London : the gendered spaces and practices of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth century / Lucy Peltz -- The desk : excavation site and repository of memories / Annegret Pelz ; translated and revised by Anne Puetz -- Antiquarianism, connoisseurship and the Northern Renaissance print : new collecting cultures in the early nineteenth century / Heather MacLennan -- Science and sensibility : architectural antiquarianism in the early nineteenth century / Alexandrina Buchanan -- Story, history and the passionate collector / Susan A. Crane.
Subjects: Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840. Stukeley, William 1687-1765. Vertue, George, 1684-1756. Geschichte 1700-1850. Museums Historiography.
Price: €60.00