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Life, legend, landscape : Victorian drawings & watercolours

Title
Life, legend, landscape : Victorian drawings & watercolours / edited by Joanna Selborne ; essays by Elizabeth Prettejohn [and others] ; catalogue by Joanna Selborne.
Author
Selborne, Joanna.
Publication
London : Courtauld Gallery : in association with Paul Holberton Pub., ©2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Prettejohn, Elizabeth.
  • Courtauld Institute Galleries.
Description
136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
Summary
This catalogue presents a rich selection of Victorian drawings and watercolours from the important collection of the Courtauld Gallery, London.
Subject
  • Courtauld Institute Galleries > Exhibitions
  • Courtauld Institute Galleries
  • Courtauld Institute of Art Courtauld Collection
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1830-1900
  • Art, Victorian > Great Britain > Exhibitions
  • Art, British > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Drawing, British > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Watercolor painting, Victorian > Great Britain > Exhibitions
  • Watercolor painting, British > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Art > England > London > Exhibitions
  • Art
  • Art, British
  • Art, Victorian
  • Drawing, British
  • Watercolor painting, British
  • Watercolor painting, Victorian
  • Aquarell
  • Zeichnung
  • England > London
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Ausstellung – London – 2011
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Feb. 17-May 15, 2011.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction : life, legend and landscape : a miscellany / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- William Etty's Female nude with a cast of the "Venus de' Medici" : corporeal possibilities beyond the "graceful bend" / Cora Gilroy-Ware -- Life drawings for dead subjects by Edward Poynter and Frederic Leighton / Keren Rosa Hammerschlag -- "Feathered with azure and barbed with steel" : skin and the thematics of touch in Rossetti's Venus Verticodia / Lucetta Johnson -- The science of art and the art of science : watercolours by Turner and Ruskin / Laurence Shafe -- Order and disarray : two watercolours by Frederick Walker / Sally-Anne Huxtable -- Everyday variety and classical constraint in Victorian drawings / Caroline Arscott -- Catalogue / Joanna Selborne.
ISBN
  • 9781907372209
  • 1907372202
OCLC
  • ocn679936894
  • 679936894
  • SCSB-1597110
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library