About this title: This major exhibition shows one of the most important subjects in British landscape painting: the country house in its setting. The publication serves as a catalogue of the exhibition and contains colour illustrations of all the paintings. Every painting has been lent by a private owner or a family trust and many have remained in the same family which commissioned them. The paintings may not, however, have hung in the houses depicted all the time as a popular reason for commissioning such views, before the days of easy travel, was to have a picture of the country seat to hand in your London ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sotheby's, London
Date Published: 1995
Description: Very Good. 10 1/2 x 8 1/2. 184 page softcover exhibition catalog, w/many color illustrations of paintings of English country houses. Exterior is bright and clean-interior is unmarked, tight and clean. read more
Binding: PB
Publisher: Sotheby's, London
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780962258824ISBN:0962258822
Description: Fine. '. from the Fifteenth Century to the Pesent Day'. Beautiful catalogue of paintings of country houses. insc. 210x270, 184pp. read more
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