London--world city, 1800-1840 / edited by Celina Fox.

Other author Fox, Celina.
Other author Kulturstiftung Ruhr.
Other author Villa Hügel e.V.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Museum of London, 1992.
Description624 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Subjects
London (England)--History. --1800-1950. --Exhibitions.

Contents Introduction : a visitor's guide to London world city, 1800-40 / Celina Fox -- London and the world / Martin Daunton -- Pantomime and pageantry : the coronation of George IV / Valerie Cumming -- The building art of the first industrial metropolis / Andrew Saint -- Metropolitan improvements : John Nash and the picturesque / J. Mordaunt Crook -- Rudolph Ackermann / Simon Jervis -- Patronage and the applied arts in early nineteenth-century London / Clive Wainwright -- Scientific London / Iwan Morus, Simon Schaffer and Jim Second -- 'Athens rising near the pole' : London, Athens and the idea of freedom / Ian Jenkins -- The London art world / Peter Funnell -- Painting in London in the early nineteenth century / Andrew Wilton -- Hidden metropolis / Marilyn Butler -- Departing glories of the British theatre / Iain Mackintosh -- Radicalculture / H.T. Dickinson.
General note"The exhibition is mounted by and the catalogue published with the assistance of Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Essen. Exhibition dates: 6 June-8 November 1992, Villa Hügel, Essen"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 616-623).
LCCN 92050447
ISBN0300052847

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks DA683.L88 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold