Life, legend, landscape : Victorian drawings & watercolours

Life, legend, landscape : Victorian drawings & watercolours / edited by Joanna Selborne ; essays by Elizabeth Prettejohn [and others] ; catalogue by Joanna Selborne.

Author/creator	Selborne, Joanna
Other author/creator	Prettejohn, Elizabeth.
Other author/creator	Courtauld Institute Galleries.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	London : The Courtauld Gallery : In association with Paul Holberton Publishing, ©2011.
Description	136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Subject(s)	Courtauld Institute Galleries--Exhibitions. Art, Victorian--Great Britain --Exhibitions. Art, British--19th century --Exhibitions. Drawing, British--19th century --Exhibitions. Watercolor painting, Victorian--Great Britain --Exhibitions. Watercolor painting, British--19th century --Exhibitions. Art--England --London --Exhibitions.

Contents	Introduction : life, legend and landscape : a miscellany / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- William Etty's Female nude with a cast of the "Venus de' Medici" : corporeal possibilities beyond the "graceful bend" / Cora Gilroy-Ware -- Life drawings for dead subjects by Edward Poynter and Frederic Leighton / Keren Rosa Hammerschlag -- "Feathered with azure and barbed with steel" : skin and the thematics of touch in Rossetti's Venus Verticodia / Lucetta Johnson -- The science of art and the art of science : watercolours by Turner and Ruskin / Laurence Shafe -- Order and disarray : two watercolours by Frederick Walker / Sally-Anne Huxtable -- Everyday variety and classical constraint in Victorian drawings / Caroline Arscott -- Catalogue / Joanna Selborne.
General note	Catalog of an exhibition of works from the Courtauld Gallery collection held at the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London, Feb. 17-May 15, 2011.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9781907372209
ISBN	1907372202

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	N6767.5.V52 S45 2011	✔ Available	Place Hold