Hayes, John
The Art of Thomas Rowlandson
Manners & Morals - Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760
Einberg, Elizabeth (dir.)
Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1987.
In-4, broché sous couverture illustrée en couleur, 254 pp.
Nombreuses illustrations en couleur.
Assez bon état. Quelques marques d'usage en couverture, bon état intérieur.
Foreword, Alan Bowness - Introduction, Elizabeth Einberg - The Artist's and Techniques, Rica Jones - Catalogue, E. Einberg [223 n°] - Biographical Index of Artists, compiled by Caroline Da Costa - Lenders.
Ce catalogue a été édité à l'occasion de l'exposition Manners & Morals Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760 présentée à la Tate Gallery, Londres, du 15 octobre 1987 au 3 janvier 1988.
This book records the major exhibition of British Painting 1700-1760 held at the Tate Gallery in 1987. It charts the emergence of a British School of painting during the first half of the eighteenth century, from its exclusive and foreign-dominated status in the reign of Queen Anne, up to the establishment of a true native school by the end of the long reign of George II in 1760.
This step was largely achieved through the genius of England's first great native painter, William Hogarth (1697-1764). He is shown here in the context of his fore-runners, rivals and contemporaries like Kneller, Thornhill, Highmore and Hayman, as well as of the "new men", whose art was to take British painting into the Golden Age that followed. These later painters, men like Ramsay, Gainsborough, Romney and Reynolds are represented here by early works that overlapped with Hogarth's activity.