This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...harmonious. A bit of scarlet pomegranate blossom, lying on the marble ground, gives the last high note of colour to the picture. Two other pictures of 1877 must not be omitted. "Study" shows us a little girl in Eastern garb (the present Lady Orkney), diligently reading a sheet of music which lies before her on a little ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...harmonious. A bit of scarlet pomegranate blossom, lying on the marble ground, gives the last high note of colour to the picture. Two other pictures of 1877 must not be omitted. "Study" shows us a little girl in Eastern garb (the present Lady Orkney), diligently reading a sheet of music which lies before her on a little desk. There is great charm in the simple grace of the picture and in the softly brilliant colouring of the child's costume. Very delightful, too, is the portrait of " Miss Mabel Mills," a little girl habited in black velvet, with a finely modelled face. Somewhat after the same fashion of a classic treatment of familiar things as "The Music Lesson," was the lovely painting of next year, "Winding the Skein," in which we see two Greek maidens winding a skein of wool; as we may see English girls, in other surroundings, doing any day. This idealizing of a familiar occupation--lifting it out of the local and casual sphere, into the permanent sphere of classic art, is very characteristic of the whole work of the P.R.A. He, like Mr. Alma-Tadema and the late Mr. Albert Moore, contrives, too, to preserve a certain modern contemporary feeling in the classic presentment of his themes. He is never archaic; the classic scenarium of his subjects is as little antiquarian, as a mediaeval subject, shall we say, in the hands of Browning. XII. P.R.A. We have brought our record down to the year 1878. In the next year Sir Frederic sent eight contributions to the Academy, not one of which, perhaps, has been counted among his masterpieces, but which by the variety in excellence, the technical quality, the sense of colour and of line that they showed, certainly helped to assure his election in the late autumn to the Presidency....
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 30 to 37 cm tall, Folio; Some webbing showing at the hinges. Water marks in the corners of a dozen or so illustrations, the rest remain clean. Repaired binding as the original spine glue had deteriorated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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None. Very Good. An in-depth study of the life and works of Frederic Leighton. With a frontispiece and numerous further photogravure plates featuring examples of Leighton's work, many with captioned tissue-guards. Includes a prefatory essay by F. G. Stephens. List of exhibited works and dates to the rear. Copperplate ink inscription reading 'The Yates-Thompson Prize for Art, J.P. Chambers July 1919' to front blank. Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton (18301896). As an artist, Leighton quickly gained a reputation as a rising talent of the English art world. He was in a sense an aberrant figure in the context of English Victorian art, having been trained in, and subscribing to, an academic method of work. Leighton's most remarkable paintings of the 1860s were of the so-called aesthetic type, without ostensible subject and ambiguous in the identification of the figures in anthropological, social, or even, on occasions, gender terms. This amounted to a rejection of the conventions of British art, which held that paintings should lend themselves to easy interpretation of narrative subjects, in favour of ideas about the function and purpose of art that had circulated on the continent. He dabbled in many genres of painting, from classical subjects to landscape to portraiture. He was admired by his contemporaries for his virtuosity in the handling of paint and the manipulation of colour. DNB In a half morocco armorial school prize binding. Externally smart with some rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Nice and bright, particularly the plates, and generally clean, with some instances of scattered light foxing, particularly to the first few pages. Several ink signatures beneath the inscription to the front blank. Very Good.
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As New. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION--74 pages of text; 15 photogravures; many black and white plates. --with a bonus offer--
