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Author : John Kirby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Suffolk (England)
ISBN : 1843830515
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843830515
Facsimiles of four rare mid-eighteenth-century maps of Suffolk, and early roadbook from the same period. Here, published in facsimile for the first time since the eighteenth century, are John Kirby's extremely rare large-scale Suffolk maps of 1736 and 1737 and the 1735 edition of his road-book The Suffolk Traveller, the earliest single-county roadbook. Those who subscribed for the 1736 map received the 1735 Traveller gratis. The maps of 1764 and 1766 which his sons published after his death are also provided, the former decorated with twelve engravings of castles and abbeys in the county. The earliest maps were the result of a survey of the whole county which Kirby carried out, with some help from Nathaniel Bacon, between 1732 and 1734. Although it is easy to pointto inaccuracies, the hand-coloured maps are highly decorative and correct many of the errors common on earlier Suffolk maps in county atlases. The heraldry on the one-inch maps and the named owners and occupiers of the larger estates provide the basis for new select directories of the county in the mid 1730s and mid-1760s. This work of Suffolk topography includes a biography of John Kirby himself and a full account of the travails of publishing his maps and book. Contributions by JENNY JAMES.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0263733831
Author : John Kirby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1764
Category : Suffolk (England)
ISBN : CHI:61021905
Author : Norman Scarfe
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 184383068X
Norman Scarfe explores place names, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the coming of Christianity, and the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, concluding with an evocative study of five Suffolk places - Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford, and Wingfield and Fressingfield. The modern landscape of Suffolk is still essentially a medieval one, though much of it is even earlier: the five hundred medieval churches and ten thousand 'listed' houses 'of historic or architectural interest', and the 'Hundred'lanes going back at least to the tenth century, are often found to be set in a landscape created before the Roman conquest. Suffolk in the Middle Ages opens with a discussion of the earliest written records, the place-names, as a guide to settlement-patterns, including the setting of Sutton Hoo. Among the grave-goods found in that celebrated ship and discussed here was the whetstone-sceptre; asked to carry it from its showcase in the British Museum to the laboratory, the author acknowledges a closer feeling of involvement even than helping to re-open the ship in its mound in 1966. His explanation of the presence of the whetstone-sceptre, printed here, has never been challenged. The identification of a carved Anglo-Saxon cross at Iken in 1977 prompted the essay here on St Botolph and the coming of East Anglian Christianity. This leads to a consideration of the Danish invasion of East Anglia, and a reexamination of the posthumous victory of King Edmund and Christianity as portrayed in an imaginary Breckland warren on the front of this book. Scarfe's carefully reasoned argument that the Metropolitan Museum's famous walrusivory cross was made for the monks' choir at Bury has never been refuted. Life in Bury abbey is vividly reconstructed: it was the most richly documented flowering of the work of East Anglia's apostles, Felix and Fursa, which alsoled to the phenomenal establishment in Suffolk by 1086 of four hundred of the five hundred medieval churches. In four East Suffolk essays, Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford and Wingfield are exposed to Norman Scarfe's interpretativeskills. He reveals a past few could have guessed at, often quite as curious as the 'Two Strange Tales' unravelled in his concluding pages.
Author : Sidney Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012116054
Author : John Cordy Jeaffreson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11571369
Author : Dror Wahrman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199876372
Three hundred years ago, an unprecedented explosion in inexpensive, disposable print--newspapers, pamphlets, informational publications, artistic prints--ushered in a media revolution that forever changed our relationship to information. One unusually perceptive man, an obscure Dutch/British still life painter named Edward Collier, understood the full significance of these momentous changes and embedded in his work secret warnings about the inescapable slippages between author and print, meaning and text, viewer and canvas, perception and reality. Working around 1700, Collier has been neglected, even forgotten, precisely because his secret messages have never been noticed, let alone understood. Until now. In Mr. Collier's Letter Racks, Dror Wahrman recovers the tale of an extraordinary illusionist artist who engaged in a wholly original way with a major transformation of his generation. Wahrman shows how Collier developed a hidden language within his illusionist paintings--replete with minutely coded messages, witty games, intricate allusions, and private jokes--to draw attention to the potential and the pitfalls of this new information age. A remarkably shrewd and prescient commentator on the changes unfolding around him, not least the advent of a new kind of politics following the Glorious Revolution, Collier performed a post-modernist critique of modernity long before the modern age. His trompe l'oeil paintings are filled with seemingly disconnected, enigmatic objects--letters, seals, texts of speeches, magnifying glasses, title pages--and with teasingly significant details that require the viewer to lean in and peer closely. Wahrman does just that, taking on the role of detective/cultural historian to unravel the layers of deceptions contained within Collier's extraordinary paintings. Written with passionate enthusiasm and including more than 70 color illustrations, Mr. Collier's Letter Racks is a spell-binding feat of cultural history, illuminating not only the work of an eccentric genius but the media revolution of his period, the birth of modern politics, and the nature of art itself.
Author : James Hamilton
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474600538
** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer ** 'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends. He was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a volatility that could lead him to slash his paintings, and a loose libidinous way of speaking, writing and behaving that shocked many deeply. He would be dynamite in polite society today. In this exhilarating new biography - the first in decades - James Hamilton reveals Gainsborough in his many contexts: the easy-going Suffolk lad, transported to the heights of fashion by a natural talent; the rake-on-the-make in London, learning his art in the shadow of Hogarth; falling on his feet when he married a duke's daughter with a handsome private income; the top society-portrait painter in Bath and London who earned huge sums by bringing the right people into his studio; the charming and amusing friend of George III and Queen Charlotte who nevertheless kept clear of the aristocratic embrace. There has been much art history written about this chameleon of art, but with fresh insights into original sources, Gainsborough: A Portrait transforms our understanding of this fascinating man, and enlightens the century that bore him.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Norfolk (England)
ISBN : UOM:39015011269464
Author : Kirby TRIMMER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017135079
Author : John Parker Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : British Isles
ISBN : OXFORD:590021417
Author : John Nichols,John Bowyer Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : OXFORD:555087801
Author : John Nichols (F.S.A., Printer.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000156010
