Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Peltz, Lucy
Title:
Facing the text : extra-illustration, print culture, and society in Britain, 1769-1840 / Lucy Peltz.
Published / Created:
San Marino, California : Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, [2017]

©2017
Physical Description:
xi, 407 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-398) and index.
Contents:
The long and short history of extra-illustration : an introduction -- Part I. Getting your heads in order : engraved portrait collecting and the origins of extra-illustration -- 'Of collectors of English portrait prints' -- Genteel authorship, the community of the antiquarian text and the invention of extra-illustration -- Portraiture, order and meaning -- John, Lord Mountstuart and the ends of the Bull Granger -- Part II. From domestic retirement to a commercial marketplace : amateurs, antiquaries and entrepreneurs -- Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books : amateurism and its trophies -- Charting the craze : Anthony Storer and Richard Bull -- The Strawberry Hill Press and the rituals of bibliographic exchange -- Antiquarian topography or armchair tourism : Thomas Pennant's 'Labors' -- Popularizing Pennant's London : how the art world sold extra-illustration -- Part III. The Sutherland Clarendon : gender, the print market and national heritage -- Buried under its own grandeur : understanding the Sutherland Clarendon -- The cut and thrust of the print market in the early nineteenth century -- Women, widowhood and collecting : Charlotte Sutherland's inheritance -- Monumentalizing the Sutherland Clarendon : between rhetoric and content, 1820-1839 -- The female connoisseur and the private catalogue -- A 'national work' completed : the Sutherland Clarendon and cultural heritage.
Subject Terms:
Illustrated books -- Extra-illustrated. | Collectors and collecting -- England -- History -- 18th century. | Collectors and collecting -- England -- History -- 19th century. | Prints -- Private collections -- England. | Portrait prints -- Private collections -- England. | Sutherland, Alexander Hendras -- Art collections. | Sutherland, Charlotte Hussey -- Art collections. | Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798 -- Illustrations. | Granger, James, 1723–1776. Biographical history of England -- Illustrations. | Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609–1674. History of the Rebellion and civil wars in England begun in the year 1641 -- Illustrations.