LEADER 02258oam 2200277z- 450 001 9910866589603321 005 20151007084553.0 010 $a1-4456-3285-3 035 $a(CKB)3810000000086113 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781445632858 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000086113 100 $a20190428cuuuuuuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 $aLondon: A History in Paintings, Illustrations and Photographs 210 $cAmberley 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 311 $a1-4456-3274-8 330 $aLondon has been an irresistible subject for generations of artists and draughtsmen, who have captured scenes of everyday life as well as the grand occasions in a variety of moods and weather. Their work has provided us with a rich legacy that is a record of London and its people, complementing the testimony of writers in portraying the splendour and the variety, the humour and sometimes the folly within the metropolis.The range of illustrations includes the atmospheric paintings of Claude de Jongh from the early seventeenth century, the Georgian elegance shown on Canaletto's cultured canvases, and Gustave Doré's disturbingly grim images of slum dwellers in Victorian London. The map-makers, too, captured the layout and character of the city and its many districts. But there are other illustrations, by little-known or anonymous draughtsmen, of particular corners or details of life within London's many worlds. A Dutch visitor, Johannes de Witt, was at the Swan Theatre on Bankside in 1596 and sent a sketch of the interior to an acquaintance, whose copy is the only contemporary illustration of the interior of a playhouse of Shakespeare's time. That is just one of the invaluable survivals which provide us with windows into London's past.This spectacular collection of images from medieval times to the present includes paintings, sketches and prints, and is accompanied by authoritative explanatory accounts of the places, people and subjects illustrated. 606 $aHistory in art 615 0$aHistory in art 676 $a709.421 700 $aPorter$b Stephen$01746721 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910866589603321 996 $aLondon: A History in Paintings, Illustrations and Photographs$94178432 997 $aUNINA