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Britannia's palette : the arts of naval victory / / Nicholas Tracy



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Autore: Tracy Nicholas <1944-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Britannia's palette : the arts of naval victory / / Nicholas Tracy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 476 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits
Disciplina: 758/.99402745
Soggetto topico: First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797
Marine painting, British - 18th century
Marine painting, British - 19th century
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Naval battles in art
Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801
War artists - Great Britain
Classificazione: 355.49
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-450) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Artists and the navy -- The glorious first of June -- St. Vincent and Camperdown -- The Nile, Copenhagen, and minor engagements to the eve of Trafalgar -- Trafalgar -- The World War -- Official painters -- Painters of the sea -- Joseph Mallord William Turner -- Postwar painters -- App. Printing techniques.
Sommario/riassunto: Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.
Titolo autorizzato: Britannia's palette  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-86632-X
9786612866326
0-7735-7585-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807208203321
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