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Horace Walpole's Cat

Frayling Christopher
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780500514917
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Høyde
312 mm
Bredde
246 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
80

Forfatter
Frayling Christopher

Biographical note

Sir Christopher Frayling is perhaps the most wide-ranging cultural historian of our times: the author of numerous publications on subjects ranging from vampires to Westerns; the writer and presenter of successful television series, whether on advertising, the Middle Ages or Tutankhamun. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was Rector of the Royal College of Art, London, from 1996 to 2009, where he remains Professor Emeritus of Cultural History. His many public appointments have included Chairman of Arts Council England; Chairman of the Design Council; and the longest-serving Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Horace Walpole's Cat

Frayling Christopher
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Frayling Christopher
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
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In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese porcelain tub in Walpole’s Mayfair house and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas Gray, `Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-fishes’, was written as her epitaph. Here is the true history of the event, and a look at the sparking social and cultural life of the period. The book is beautifully illustrated with Richard Bentley’s original series of designs for the poem,William Blake’s wonderful watercolours of some fifty years later, and the unpublished illustrations produced in the 1940s by Kathleen Hale, of Orlando the Cat fame.
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In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese porcelain tub in Horace Walpole's Mayfair house and never returned to dry land. This book presents the true history of the event, and offers a look at the social and cultural life of the period.
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In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese porcelain tub in Walpole’s Mayfair house and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas Gray, `Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-fishes’, was written as her epitaph. Here is the true history of the event, and a look at the sparking social and cultural life of the period. The book is beautifully illustrated with Richard Bentley’s original series of designs for the poem,William Blake’s wonderful watercolours of some fifty years later, and the unpublished illustrations produced in the 1940s by Kathleen Hale, of Orlando the Cat fame.
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In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese porcelain tub in Horace Walpole's Mayfair house and never returned to dry land. This book presents the true history of the event, and offers a look at the social and cultural life of the period.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780500514917
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Høyde
312 mm
Bredde
246 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
80

Forfatter
Frayling Christopher

Biographical note

Sir Christopher Frayling is perhaps the most wide-ranging cultural historian of our times: the author of numerous publications on subjects ranging from vampires to Westerns; the writer and presenter of successful television series, whether on advertising, the Middle Ages or Tutankhamun. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was Rector of the Royal College of Art, London, from 1996 to 2009, where he remains Professor Emeritus of Cultural History. His many public appointments have included Chairman of Arts Council England; Chairman of the Design Council; and the longest-serving Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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