Description
Christopher Wood Gallery, 1984. Paperback, [38] pp.; 21 cm; illustrated with 29 black-and-white plates, and color illustrations on both covers. Introduction by Henry Potts.
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In Very Good condition. Perfect bound in pale green card covers with outline lettering; front cover with color reproduction of James Wyatt's perspective of Wycombe Abbey, rear cover with William Ward Gill's Downton Castle. Mild shelf wear with light bumping to edges and corners. Catalogue text printed on fawn paper with plates on white. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Catalogue of a London dealer's exhibition held February 7-24, 1984 at the Christopher Wood Gallery, 15 Motcomb Street, the Victorian art gallery founded in 1977 by former Christie's director Christopher Wood. The 90 works, arranged chronologically from the 1770s to 1917, are views of country houses and their gardens, interiors, and architects' plans and perspectives, each catalogued with medium, dimensions, inscriptions, provenance and exhibition history. Potts's introduction describes identifying a drawing catalogued as "A Design for a Country House c. 1820-30" as James Wyatt's original perspective for Wycombe Abbey, and discusses Thomas Pennethorne's views of John Nash's own East Cowes Castle and Thomas Hosmer Shepherd's view of the Prince Regent's Carlton House, which stood only from 1783 to 1826. Other artists include William Watts, Moses Griffith, John Nixon, Thomas Shotter Boys, William Walcot, and garden painters Beatrice Parsons and George Samuel Elgood. Contents: Introduction; Catalogue; Index of Artists.