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The British as art collectors : from the Tudors to the present / James Stourton and Charles Sebag-Montefiore.
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Title:The British as art collectors : from the Tudors to the present / James Stourton and Charles Sebag-Montefiore.
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Author/Creator:Stourton, James.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Sebag-Montefiore, Charles.
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Published/Created:London : Scala, 2012.
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: N5202.G7 S76 2012
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Links:Donor bookplate
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Art--Collectors and collecting--Great Britain--History.
Art--Private collections--Great Britain--History.
Art museums--Great Britain--History.
Art--Great Britain--History.
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Description:352 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337) and index.
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ISBN:9781857597493 (hbk.)
1857597494 (hbk.)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. ROYALTY
Collecting at Court
1. Precursors: Collecting and Patronage in the Tudor Age
2. Jacobean Antiquarians
3. Earl and Countess of Arundel
4. Charles I and the Whitehall Circle
5. Dispersal and Commonwealth
6. Restoration 1660-88
II. ARISTOCRACY
Country House Boom
7. Grand Tour: The First Phase
8. Town and Country in the Early 18th Century
9. Grand Tour: High Summer
10. Horace Walpole and Antiquarian Taste
11. Archaeology and Antiquity
III. PLUTOCRACY
Metropolitan Apogee
12. Orleans Collection and Napoleon's Bonanza
13. Tastemakers
14. Champions of the British School
15. Le Gout Francais
16. Hispanophile Collecting
17. Lure of Florence
IV. DEMOCRACY
Collecting in the Museum Age
18. World Beyond Europe
19. Founding of the National Gallery
20. Victorian Rich
21. Eclectics and Aesthetes 1870-1914
22. Catching Up: Modernism 1880-1945
23. Specialists and Scholars 1918-45
24. From Post-War to Swinging Sixties 1949-79
25. London: International Art City 1979-2000.