Britannia's palette : the arts of naval victory / Nicholas Tracy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tracy, Nicholas, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Royal Navy--In art.

Great Britain.

First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797--Art and the war.

First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797.

Marine painting, British--18th century.

Marine painting, British.

Marine painting, British--19th century.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Art and the wars.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

Naval battles in art.

Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801--Art and the war.

Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801.

War artists--Great Britain--Biography.

War artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 476 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.

Contents:

Artists and the navy

The glorious first of June

St. Vincent and Camperdown

The Nile, Copenhagen, and minor engagements to the eve of Trafalgar

Trafalgar

The World War

Official painters

Painters of the sea

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Postwar painters

App. Printing techniques.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-450) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86632-X

9786612866326

0-7735-7585-5

OCLC:

923234286