Rare Books and ManuscriptsN7433.4.W67 G728 2002Yale 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:
Duke of Wellington's, Apsley House, London. The yellow drawing-room -- Frederic Leighton's, Leighton House, London. The drawing room -- John Keats's, Keats House, London. Keats's bedroom -- Charles Darwin's, Down House, Kent. The drawing room -- Sigmund Freud's, The Freud Museum, London. The dining room -- Charles Dickens's, Dickens House Museum, London. The drawing room -- John Soane's, Pitshanger Manor, London. The eating room -- Samuel Johnson's, Dr. Johnson's House, London. The library -- William Hogarth's, Hogarth's House, London. The library -- Frederic Leighton's, Leighton House, London. The dining room -- Thomas Carlyle's, Carlyle's House, London. The china closet.
Subject Terms:
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Interior decoration -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Draperies -- Pictorial works. | Historic house museums -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Workman, Liz -- Publisher.