Rustic Simplicity: Scenes of Cottage Life in Nineteenth-Century British Art - Softcover

Payne, Christiana; Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance

 
9780853317470: Rustic Simplicity: Scenes of Cottage Life in Nineteenth-Century British Art

Synopsis

This book examines the functions served by n ineteenth-century rustic genre paintings in their social and intellectual context. It also deals with the issues raised by their contemporary popularity and subsequent neglect in t he twentieth century '

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