Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully - 8 Angebote vergleichen

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Golden Bridge Books [6884050], Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 210 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Book Description: In 1837, Thomas Sully, who had created a vogue for full-length portraiture among the elite of Philadelphia, was offered a commission to paint the young Queen Victoria. He had already painted Andrew Jackson and Lafayette, but it was his refined and sensual portraits of women that had won him the greatest renown. Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully tells the story of his complex and challenging sojourn abroad, in which he spent five months waiting for a sitting with Her Majesty. He kept expectations in check as he navigated his way through the corridors of British protocol and power, biding time by becoming an active participant in London's lively art scene. By drawing upon Victoria's and Sully's journals, as well as contemporary letters, Carrie Barratt deftly arrives at exactly how Sully achieved his stunning portrait of Victoria, which took, Books.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkosten nach: CHE.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
Princeton University Press. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s).

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkosten nach: NLD.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, First Landing Books & Art.
2000: Princeton University Press, 2000. "illuminates...the competitive process of making portraits in order to advance political power.. Barratt includes an edited version of Sully's engrossing journal, the diary of a highly articulate and entrepreneurial American in London with his twenty-one-year-old daughter during the exciting coronation year. Both the exhibition and the book have been undertaken at this time to commemorate the anniversary of Queen Victoria's death in January 1901" 219 pages; contents: foreward, preface, QUEEN VICTORIA AND THOMAS SULLY, Queen Victoria: her life in pictures, Thomas Sully: hints from an old painter, Fanny Kemble Butler: the muse, Queen Victoria by Thomas Sully, The lawsuit and the legacy, THOMAS SULLY'S JOURNAL, Further reading, Index, Photography credits. 1st. Hard Cover. near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. World History.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks-Dallas [54448258], Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less, Books.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Grossbritannien und Nordirland, Versandkosten nach: CHE.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Literary Cat Books.
Very Good. 0691070342 . Slight wear to spine, covers and corners. Dustjacket slightly soiled and worn to margins and corners. ; Book .

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Versandkosten nach: CHE.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Wonder Book.
Princeton University Press. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Versandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Eve's Book Garden, CA, Albany, [RE:3].
Princeton University Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Crisp & clean copy. Jacket has some wrinkling to the rear side.. Hardcover.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
arts music and photography,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,criticism,england,europe,history,history and criticism, In 1837, Thomas Sully, who had created a vogue for full-length portraiture among the elite of Philadelphia, was offered a commission to paint the young Queen Victoria. He had already painted Andrew Jackson and Lafayette, but it was his refined and sensual portraits of women that had won him the greatest renown. Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully tells the story of his complex and challenging sojourn abroad, in which he spent five months waiting for a sitting with Her Majesty. He kept expectations in check as he navigated his way through the corridors of British protocol and power, biding time by becoming an active participant in London's lively art scene. By drawing upon Victoria's and Sully's journals, as well as contemporary letters, Carrie Barratt deftly arrives at exactly how Sully achieved his stunning portrait of Victoria, which took great liberties with conventions of state portraiture and was acclaimed as a masterpiece. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition originating at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and traveling to The Wallace Collection in London, is beautifully illustrated and illuminates not only the creation of this painting but the competitive process of making portraits in order to advance political power. Barratt includes an edited version of Sully's engrossing journal, the diary of a highly articulate and entrepreneurial American in London with his twenty-one-year-old daughter during the exciting coronation year. Both.