The Georgian London town house : building, collecting and display / edited by Susanna Avery-Quash and Kate Retford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Avery-Quash, Susanna, editor.

Retford, Kate, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--England--London--History--18th century--Congresses.

Architecture and society.

Architecture and society--England--London--History--19th century--Congresses.

Architecture, Georgian--England--London--Congresses.

Architecture, Georgian.

Row houses--England--London--Congresses.

Row houses.

London (England)--Buildings, structures, etc--Congresses.

London (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.

Summary:

"For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: Susanna Avery Quash, The National Gallery, London, and Kate Retford, Birkbeck College, University of London

Contexts

Chapter 1: Joseph Friedman, University of Buckingham, 'Town and Country: Patterns of Aristocratic Collecting in Georgian England'

Chapter 2: Matthew Jenkins, University of York, and Charlotte Newman, English Heritage, 'London in pieces: Building Biographies in Georgian Mayfair'

Part I: Creating the London Town House

Chapter 3: Neil Bingham, Royal Institute of British Architects, 'The Regency Transformation of Burlington House, Piccadilly, documented through the Architectural Drawings of Samuel Ware'

Chapter 4: Adriano Aymonino, University of Buckingham, and Manolo Guerci, University of Kent, 'Building and Refurbishing the London Town House during the mid-eighteenth century: Francophilia in Interior Decoration'

Chapter 5: Susanna Avery-Quash, The National Gallery, London, 'John Julius Angerstein's Collection of Old Masters at Pall Mall: an eighteenth-century London Financier and his Circle of Art Advisers'

Part II: Display in the London Town House

Chapter 6: Susannah Brooke, Architectural Historian and Heritage Consultant for Alan Baxter Limited, London, 'The Display and Reception of Private Picture Collections in London Town Houses, 1780-1830'

Chapter 7: Desmond Shawe Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures, 'Picture Displays at Carlton House'

Chapter 8: Anne Nellis Richter, American University in Washington D.C., 'Glitter and Fashion in the "Louvre of London": Animating Cleveland House'

Chapter 9: Jeremy Howard, University of Buckingham, 'New light on Norfolk House: The Decoration and Furnishing of Norfolk House for the 9th Duke and Duchess of Norfolk'

Chapter 10: Donato Esposito, independent art historian, 'Artist in Residence: Joshua Reynolds at 47 Leicester Fields'

Chapter 11: Helen McCormack, Glasgow School of Art, 'Animating Anatomy: 16 Great Windmill Street, Westminster'

Bibliography.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501337321

1501337327

9781501337314

1501337319

9781501337307

1501337300

OCLC:

1114320295