The Georgians: Eighteenth-Century Portraiture & Society
first edition Hardcover
1990 · London
by Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
London: Barrie & Jenkins, Ltd, 1990. First. Hardcover. VG. Green cloth with gilt lettering at spine; Color illus. dj.; 239 pp.; 147 color and bw figures. Examines eighteenth-century portraiture through the various forms of "sitters"-- soldiers and war heroes, children, young women of "sensibility," and more; Includes portraits by Gainsborough, Hogarth, Ramsay, Reynolds, Francis Cotes, Romney, Raeburn, Sir William Beechey, and more; Extensive annotations and beautiful plates. (Inventory #: 115331)