| Description |
328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| Note |
Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Yale Center for British Art and held at the Center Oct. 5, 1996-Jan. 5, 1997 and at 3 other art museums, Feb. 13, 1997 through Winter 1997/1998. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-328). |
| Contents |
Cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth century / Anthony Cross -- British paintings in the Hermitage and Catherine the Great / Larissa Dukelskaya -- Houghton sale / Andrew Moore -- Sir Joshua Reynolds and the court of Catherine the Great / Martin Postle -- Scottish architects in Imperial Russia and their drawings in the Hermitage / Miliza Korshunova -- British gardeners and the vogue of the English garden in late eighteenth-century Russia / Anthony Cross -- James Walker : a British engraver in St. Petersburg / Alan Bird -- British artists in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century / Elizaveta Renne -- Wedgwood's Green Frog Service and the Imperial court / Lydia Liackhova -- English silver in St. Petersburg / Marina Lopato -- Engraved gems in Britain : the Russian perspective / Yulia Kagan. |
| Summary |
This sumptuously illustrated book coincides with the bicentenary of the death of the Empress Catherine the Great. It examines the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The distinguished art critic John Russell provides an introduction for this book, and eminent British and Russian scholars offer chapters on such topics as British gardeners and the vogue of the. |
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English Garden, the sale of Sir Robert Walpole's remarkable collection of Old Master paintings from Houghton Hall to Catherine the Great, British architects at the Imperial court as well as articles on silver, porcelain and engraved gems. This book is the catalogue for the exhibition organised by the Yale Center for British Art and the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg which opens at the Yale Center for British Art in October 1996. |
| Language |
Translated from the Russian by Catherine Phillips. |
| Subject |
Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) -- Exhibitions.
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Art, British -- Exhibitions.
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Art -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- Exhibitions.
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Great Britain -- Relations -- Russia.
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Russia -- Relations -- Great Britain.
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Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) (OCoLC)fst00536367
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Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
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Art, British. (OCoLC)fst00816044
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International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312
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Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
(OCoLC)fst01212867
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Allen, Brian, 1952-
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Dukelʹskai︠a︡, L. A. (Larisa Aleksandrovna)
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Yale Center for British Art.
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| ISBN |
0300069464 (cloth) |
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9780300069464 (cloth) |
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