Placing Faces: The Portrait and the English Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century

Contributor(s): Perry, Gill (Editor), Retford, Kate (Editor), Vibert, Jordan (Editor), Lyons, Hannah (With)

ISBN: 9780719090394

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Hardcover

$130.00

Pub Date: October 31, 2013

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.50" L x 6.40" W ( 2.05 lbs) 320 pages

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Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Explores the relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain

Brief description: Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University

Review Quotes:

"the book provides valuable information that increases the reader's understanding of the crucial place portraits occupy in the political and familial role of the country house"

(Hugh Belsey, Art Newspaper, 01/07/2014)