London--world city, 1800-1840 / edited by Celina Fox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, Celina.

Kulturstiftung Ruhr.

Villa Hügel e.V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--History--1800-1950--Exhibitions.

London (England).

Physical Description:

624 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Museum of London, 1992.

Contents:

Introduction: A Visitor's Guide to London World City, 1800-40 / Celina Fox

London and the World / Martin Daunton

Pantomime and Pageantry: The Coronation of George IV / Valerie Cumming

The Building Art of the First Industrial Metropolis / Andrew Saint

Metropolitan Improvements John Nash and the Picturesque / J. Mordaunt Crook

Rudolph Ackermann / Simon Jervis

Patronage and the Applied Arts in Early Nineteenth-Century London / Clive Wainwright

Scientific London / Iwan Morus, Simon Schaffer and Jim Secord

'Athens Rising near the Pole': London, Athens and the Idea of Freedom / Ian Jenkins

The London Art World / Peter Funnell

Painting in London in the Early Nineteenth Century / Andrew Wilton

Hidden Metropolis / Marilyn Butler

Departing Glories of the British Theatre / Iain Mackintosh

Radical Culture / H. T. Dickinson

Exhibition Catalogue. London World City. Urban Infrastructure. Ackermann's Repository of Arts. Science and Technology. Watercolours.

Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. The Shows of London. Painting and Sculpture. Literary London. Silver and Jewellery, Porcelain, Watches and Scientific Instruments. Silver. Porcelain. Watch and Clock Making. Scientific Instruments. Theatre and Music. The Culture of Reform. Clubland. The New Age.

Notes:

"The exhibition is mounted by and the catalogue published with the assistance of Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Essen. Exhibition dates: 6 June-8 November 1992, Villa Hügel, Essen"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 616-623).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.

ISBN:

0300052847