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Frontispiece to Spring

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Description: Frontispiece to Spring
TitleFrontispiece to Spring
Creator nameKent, William
Creator name (description)Engraved by Nicolas Tardieu
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1730
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
Dimensions7 × 8 3/4 in. (17.78 × 22.23 cm)
LocationBard Graduate Center Library, New York
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsEngraving, BritishAllegoriesIllustration of books--18th century
StatusFrom James Thomson, "Seasons" (1730), vol. 1, p. 3
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Chapter 16. Kent as Book Illustrator
Nicholas Savage
Description: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
HORACE WALPOLE’S damning criticism of the illustrations in...
Author
Nicholas Savage
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2013 Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Related print edition pages: pp.413-441
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00218.016
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20601&redirecttoanchor=57514
Chapter subject tags:Kent, William, 1685-1748Illustration of books--England--18th centuryEnglish literature--18th centuryGay, John, 1685-1732Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
8. Ruskin, “Turnerian Topography,” and Genius Loci
John Dixon Hunt
Description: Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
~~This essay is about how we read Turner’s landscape paintings, especially those which picture country estates. I use “read” about Turner’s landscape paintings for a variety of reasons. First, because his paint upon the canvas is in two respects like words upon the page—it is a symbolic language...
Author
John Dixon Hunt
PublisherMIT Press
Copyright© 1992 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Related print edition pages: pp.215-239
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00056.012
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Chapter subject tags:Gardens, EnglishLandscape painting, EnglishPicturesque, The, in art

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