London
World City, 1800-1840
Published on 23. September 1992
Book
Hardback
624 pages
978-0-300-05284-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a portrait of the city of London in a period when Britain enjoyed cultural, artistic, technological and material pre-eminence. It was a time when the foundations were laid for much later wealth and power. The importance of Britain in the early 19th century has been taken up by the Kulturstiftung Ruhur in Essen, who, in co-operation with the Museum of London have mounted an historical exhibition at the Villa Hugel near Essen (June-December 1992), for which this book serves as the catalogue. The exhibition itself is very broad in scope, ranging from artistic masterpieces by Turner and Constable through scientific and technological wonders of the age.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
750 b&w illustrations, 150 colour plates
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 275 mm
Weight
2950 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-05284-8 (9780300052848)
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Content
Introduction: a visitor's guide to metropole London, Celina Fox (Museum of London); London and the world, Martin Daunton (University College London); pantomime and pagentry - the coronation of George VI, Valerie Cumming (Museum of London); the building art of the first industrial metropolis, Andrew Saint (English Heritage); metropolitan improvements - John Nash and the picturesque, J. Mordaunt Crook (Bedford and Royal Holloway College, University of London); Rudolph Ackerman, Simon Jervis (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); patronage and the applied arts in 19th-century London, Clive Wainwright (Victoria and Albert Museum); scientific London, Iwan Morus et al (University of Cambridge); "Athens rising near the Pole" - London, Athens and the idea of freedom, Ian Jenkins (British Museum); the London art world and its institutions, Peter Funnell (National Portrait Gallery); painting in London in the early 19th century, Andrew Wilton (Tate Gallery); hidden metropolis - London in sentimental and romantic writing, Marilyn Butler (University of Cambridge); departing glories of the British theatre - setting suns over a neo-classical landscape, Iain Mackintosh (theatre historian); radical culture, H.T. Dickinson (University of Edinburgh).