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Clerics & connoisseurs : the Rev. Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe family and the fortunes of an Irish art collection through three centuries / edited by Alastair Laing, with special contributions by Nicholas Turner.
- Title
- Clerics & connoisseurs : the Rev. Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe family and the fortunes of an Irish art collection through three centuries / edited by Alastair Laing, with special contributions by Nicholas Turner.
- Publication
- London : English Heritage : Azimuth Editions Ltd., 2001.
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- Description
- 384 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
- Summary
- This illustrated catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Kenwood (19 October 2001-27 January 2002) on an 18th century Irish house and the collection largely formed there by the Cobbe family.
- Alternative Title
- Irish art collection through three centuries
- Clerics and connoisseurs
- Clerics & connoisseurs : an Irish art collection through three centuries
- Rev. Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe family and the fortunes of an Irish art collection through three centuries
- Subject
- Cobb family > Art collections > Exhibitions
- Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784 > Exhibitions
- Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood (London, England) > Exhibitions
- Newbridge House (Dublin, Ireland : County) > Exhibitions
- Newbridge House > Exhibitions
- Art > Collectors and collecting > Ireland > Exhibitions
- Art > Private collections > Ireland > Exhibitions
- Art > London > Exhibitions
- Art and society > Ireland > Exhibitions
- Country homes > Dublin (County) > Exhibitions
- Decorative arts > Private collections > Ireland > Exhibitions
- Decorative arts > London > Exhibitions
- Art > Collectors and collecting > Dublin (County) > Exhibitions
- Art > Private collections > Dublin (County) > Exhibitions
- Decorative arts > Private collections > Dublin (County) > Exhibitions
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Note
- "Published to accompany the exhibition Clerics and connoisseurs: an Irish art collection through three centuries, the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London, 19 October 2001-27 January 2002"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-382) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Cobbe Museum of curiosities / Alec Cobbe -- Newbridge and the Irish country house / Knight of Glin -- James Gibbs and the design of Newbridge House / Alec Cobbe and Terry Friedman -- The Cobbe family of Hampshire and Ireland / Alec Cobbe -- Collecting in Ireland in the 18th century : the historic Cobbe collection in context / Charles Sebag-Montefiore -- Matthew Pilkington and The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters of 1770 : a landmark in art history / Barbara Bryant -- The Newbridge drawing room : a picture gallery for a Georgian villa / Julius Bryant -- Musical instruments in 18th-century Newbridge / Alec Cobbe -- The framing and restoration of the historic Cobbe collection / Alec Cobbe -- 'Through ancestral patterns dance' : the Irish portraits at Newbridge House / William Laffan -- 'A better picture to the Christian eye' : the sale of Meindert Hobbema's Wooded landscape from Newbridge / Arthur K. Wheelock Jr and Alec Cobbe.
- ISBN
- 1850748055 (cloth)
- 1850748039 (paperback)
- OCLC
- 50509281
- SCSB-10097991
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library