Scenes and traces of the English Civil War / Stephen Bann.
Published / Created:
London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2020.
Physical Description:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color), color map ; 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index.
Contents:
Introdution -- Speaking stones: inscriptions of identity from Civil War monuments -- A Kentish family in wartime: the bargraves of bifrons -- Kings on horseback: Charles I's statue at Charing Cross and its afterlife -- Whig views of the past: Horace Walpole and Co. -- Illustrating history: visual narratives form the restoration to Hume's history of England -- Boots and all: Cromwell evoked by James Ward and Paul Delaroche -- French genre for an English patron: Paul Delaroche's, Charles I insulted by the soldiers of Cromwell -- A sense of an ending: problems of English history painting in the nineteenth century.
Subject Terms:
Art, English -- 17th century. | War in art. | Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. | Art, English. | War in art. | Great Britain. | English Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649)