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Author Cumming, Laura, author.

Title The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece / Laura Cumming.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  759.6 CUM    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  759.6 CUMMING    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Gallery  759.6 VELAZQUEZ C    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  759.6 CUM    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description viii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.
Contents A discovery -- The painting -- The painter -- Minister Street -- Man in black -- The talk of London -- A man in full -- The attack -- The theater of life -- Seizure and theft -- The trial -- The escape -- Velázquez on Broadway -- The escape artist -- The vanishing -- Seeing is believing -- The ghost of a picture -- An infinite number of Charleses -- Lost and found -- Saved.
Subject Snare, John -- Knowledge -- Art.
Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Reading.
Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660 -- Appreciation.
Portrait painting -- Attribution.
Snare, John. (OCoLC)fst01627815
Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660. (OCoLC)fst00037140
Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
Art appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00815447
Booksellers and bookselling. (OCoLC)fst00836492
Portrait painting -- Attribution. (OCoLC)fst01072168
England -- Reading. (OCoLC)fst01205664
ISBN 9781476762180 (trade paper)
147676218X (trade paper)
9781476762159 (hardcover)
1476762155 (hardcover)
9781476762166 (ebook)
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