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Bringing together a selection of large-scale historical paintings, modest and rarely seen landscape watercolours, illustrated novels, children's books, newspaper illustrations and ephemera from both public and private sources, this groundbreaking publication explores both an unduly neglected figure and some important aspects of Victorian life. Offering first-class, original research, Sir John Gilbert is essential reading for all those with a particular interest in Victorian art, literature and society.
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Spike Bucklow is a conservation scientist at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge; Sally Woodcock is an easel paintings conservator in private practice; Mark Bills is Curator at the Watts Gallery. He was formerly Senior Curator of paintings, prints and drawings at the Museum of London; Nicola Bown lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is author of Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature, 2001; Kathleen Froyen is a graduate intern at the Hamilton Kerr Institute; Paul Goldman is an art historian specialising in Victorian art and illustration. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London; Vivien Knight was Curator and Head of Guildhall Art Gallery, London, and the City of London's Permanent Collection, 1982-2009; Caroline Oliver is Lead Frame Conservator at Guildhall Art Gallery, London; Neil Rhind is a historian specialising in the social and architectural history of Blackheath and Greenwich, London; Libby Sheldon is a Lecturer in History of Art with Material Studies and runs the Painting Analysis Unit in the History of Art Department, University College London; Timothy Wilcox is an art historian and curator.
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'this book, with its many essays and illustrations, will be of value not only to those interested in Gilbert but also anybody interested in the wider topic of Victorian culture and society.' Arlis
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- PublisherLund Humphries
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1848220790
- ISBN 13 9781848220799
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages264
- EditorBucklow Spike, Woodcock Sally
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