G.F. Watts : the last great Victorian / Veronica Franklin Gould
2004, 1st edition. New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388748
ISBN: 0300105770
Physical description; 458 pp.: illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Contents; Ambitious Young Philhellene -- Florence Chapter -- A Caged Eagle -- Crusade Against Bare Walls -- Breezy Bohemia -- Choosing -- Unbridled Passion -- Royal Academician -- 'Calling off these Studios' -- Sweet Briary -- New Little Holland House -- Polemicist -- Genius Exposed -- Revelations -- New York Sensation -- Hope -- Apex of Art -- 'The Utmost for the Highest' -- Limnerslease -- Sic Transit -- Dual Forces -- Handover to the Nation -- The Colossus Sits -- 'Our Race as Pioneers' -- 'How fast the days go!'. Subjects; Watts, George Frederick 1817-1904. Painters England ; Biography. Symbolism (Art movement) England. Sculptors, British 19th century ; Biography.
Price: €50.00