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A capital collection : Houghton Hall and the Hermitage : with a modern edition of "Aedes Walpolianae," Horace Walpole's catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's collection / edited by Larissa Dukelskaya and Andrew Moore.

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A capital collection : Houghton Hall and the Hermitage : with a modern edition of "Aedes Walpolianae," Horace Walpole's catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's collection / edited by Larissa Dukelskaya and Andrew Moore.
Publication
New Haven ; London : Published for the State Hermitage Museum and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Moore, Andrew.
  • Dukelʹskai︠a︡, L. A. (Larisa Aleksandrovna)
  • Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
  • Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
  • Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Description
500 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Alternative Title
Houghton Hall and the Hermitage
Subject
  • Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 > Art collections > Catalogs
  • Houghton Hall (England) > Catalogs
  • Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) > Catalogs
  • 1600-1699
  • Painting > Saint Petersburg > Catalogs
  • Great Britain > Relations > Russia
  • Russia > Relations > Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Catalogs
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Robert Walpole's collection of paintings was purchased from his grandson, George Walpole, in 1779 by Catherine II of Russia for the Hermitage.
  • Ill. on lining papers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-500).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
"Aedes Walpolianae" : the collection as edifice / Andrew Moore -- The Houghton sale and the fate of a great collection / Larissa Dukelskaya -- Catalogue of the Houghton paintings sold to Catherine II. The seventeenth-century Italian paintings from the Walpole collection / Svetlana Vsevozhskaya -- Seventeenth-century Flemish paintings in the "Aedes" and the Hermitage / Natalya Gritsay -- Catalogue of the paintings, sculpture and works of art remaining at Houghton / Andrew Moore -- "Aedes Walpolianae" by Horace Walpole / edited by Andrew Moore -- Picture hangs at Houghton / Andrew Moore and David Yaxley
ISBN
0300097581 :
OCLC
155731904
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library