Magnificent entertainments : temporary architecture for Georgian festivals / Melanie Doderer-Winkler
2013, 1st edition. New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #428128
ISBN: 9780300186420
Physical description; ix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index. Contents; Temporary Structures for Fireworks and Private Entertainments -- Delightful Pleasures at Vauxhall Gardens -- llumination Nights Lighting Up in Celebration --Temporary Decorations on Tables and Floors -- Regency Fetes and the Great Jubilee of 1814 -- Appendices. Green Park Royal Fireworks, 1749, full description ; The Entertainment of George III and Queen Charlotte at Guildhall, 28 February 1761 ; Boodle's Fete at Ranelagh Gardens, 2 June 1802 ; White's Subscription Fete in Honour of The Duke of Wellington at Burlington House, 1 June 1814 ; The Grand Jubilee, 1 August 1814. Subjects; George III, King of Great Britain 1738-1820 Jubilee, 1814. Vauxhall Gardens. ARCHITECTURE History Baroque & Rococo. HISTORY Europe Great Britain. HISTORY Modern 18th Century. Architecture and Planning. Festival architecture.
Price: €125.00