Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Workman, Liz
Title:: Great men's skirting boards.
Published / Created:: [London] : Liz Workman, 2002.
Physical Description:: [12] p. : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 14 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.4.W67 G77 2002
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Cover title.
"In 2002 I published National Heritage Revisited, a collection of books that examined ... [houses that have been transformed into] museums. I wanted to question our expectations when we visit them and the reliability of items on display."--CFPR Book Arts website.
Contents:: John Soane's, Pitshanger Manor, London. The principal bedchamber -- Charles Darwin's, Down House, Kent. The dining room -- John Keat's, Keats House, London. Brown's sitting room -- William Morris's, William Morris Gallery, London. The drawing room -- Sigmund Freud's, The Freud Museum, London. The dining room -- John Soane's, Pitshanger Manor, London. The drawing room -- Frederic Leighton's, Leighton House, London. The drawing room -- Charles Dicken's, Dickens House Museum, London. The drawing room -- Thomas Carlyle's, Carlyle's House, London. The study -- John Keats's, Keats House, London. Keats's bedroom -- Duke of Wellington's, Apsley House, London. The Waterloo gallery.
Subject Terms:: Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Interior decoration -- Pictorial works. | Historic house museums -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Workman, Liz -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:: Artists' books -- Great Britain.