Item #156905 A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage -- with a modern edition of Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole's Catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's Collection. Larissa Dukelskaya, Andrew Moore.
A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage -- with a modern edition of Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole's Catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's Collection
A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage -- with a modern edition of Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole's Catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's Collection
A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage -- with a modern edition of Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole's Catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's Collection
A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage -- with a modern edition of Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole's Catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's Collection
A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage -- with a modern edition of Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole's Catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's Collection

A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage -- with a modern edition of Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole's Catalogue of Sir Robert Walpole's Collection

New Haven and London: State Hermitage Museum / Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, color pictorial dust jacket in mylar cover, 500 pp., BW and color illus. VG (Ex-art library, with spine label and identifying marks on book block edges and on outermost pages, incl. due slip and barcode; otherwise clean.). Item #156905
ISBN: 9780300097580

"After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first 'prime' minister, from political power in 1742, most of his celebrated collection of Old Master paintings was removed to his newly-built Palladian house in Norfolk, Houghton Hall. In 1779 this collection was sold by Sir Robert's grandson to the Empress Catherine II of Russia, which was seen as a scandalous loss to Britain. This book catalogues for the first time the entire collection in Russia as well as those works of art that remained at Houghton Hall. Accompanying the catalogue are essays on various aspects of the formation and sale of the collection." (dj) The main portion of the annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 274 pieces. Interesting on a variety of levels.

OCLC: 155731904

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