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Description: Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
~This book has grown out of a doctoral thesis which I began at University College London in 1977. I was fortunate to have as my supervisor Will Vaughan, and it was his continued encouragement and critical stimulus which made the protracted task of completing a part-time doctorate possible. The thesis was...
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00073.005
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This book has grown out of a doctoral thesis which I began at University College London in 1977. I was fortunate to have as my supervisor Will Vaughan, and it was his continued encouragement and critical stimulus which made the protracted task of completing a part-time doctorate possible. The thesis was typed by David Baughan, who put up with my endless changes with a degree of patience far beyond that I should have expected of him. Much of the book was worked out while I was on the staff of Ealing College of Higher Education. I am grateful to my friends and former colleagues: Barry King, Frank McMahon, Peter Smith, and the late Roger Andersen, all of whom either read early versions of some chapters, or discussed ideas with me at length. The thesis was read in its entirety by David Bindman, John Gage, Dian K. Kriz, Michael Kitson, and Alex Potts, and I have benefited greatly from their advice, even when I haven’t followed it. In writing a book of this kind one is inevitably dependent on the assistance of many museum curators and librarians. I can only express my thanks to them here in general terms, but I would like to record my particular appreciation of the help of Norma Watt at Norwich Castle Museum, and Brian Allen, Assistant Director of the Paul Mellon Centre in London. Parts of chapters 8 and 9 were written during a short-term fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art. I am grateful to the staff there for making my stay in New Haven so pleasant, and my use of the Center so productive. My editor, John Trevitt, was not only unfailingly enthusiastic about this project, but also responded sympathetically to my quaint notions of book design. Finally, the process of transforming the thesis into a book could not have been anything like as enjoyable and rewarding as it was without the conversation and friendship of Carol Duncan.
Quotations from the Dawson Turner Correspondence are by permission of the Masters and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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