J. F. C. Phillips
Shepherd's London
Four artists and their view of the metropolis, 1[zasłonięte]800-18
London 1976
Stron 116, format: 24x29 cm
52 czarno-białych ilustracji
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"An extensive and peculiar knowledge of London!' Charles Dickens (of Sam Weller), The Pickwick Papers.
The picturesqueness of a London now largely vanished is recorded over three generations by the Shepherd family of artists. As a visual impression of the life and townscape of Regency and early Victorian London their work is invaluable; but of the artists themselves we have hitherto known little.
The London of Dickens and Mayhew-a place of great poverty as well as of charm, elegance, and technical innovation-was the abiding first love of the Shepherd family The engravings by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, published in in Metropolitan Improvements and London in the Nineteenth Century represent only a fraction of the two thousand drawings and paintings which are the Shepherds' legacy. Here for the first time a cross-section of their work has been selected to bring out its strength and attractiveness and the surprisingly high quality of draughtsmanship.
Mr Phillips, by his tenacious delving into the archives, has pieced together the history of the Shepherd family, enabling us to follow their development as artists and witness their influence on each other. Through his notes and the text which accompanies each plate Mr Phillips brings to life the London they portrayed.
Contents
Foreword 6
Author's Preface 7
The Shepherds and their London 8
Plates and Text 16
Map of London in 1832 100
A Guide to the Shepherds' London Drawings 102
The Major Collections 108
Bibliography no
Appendix 112
Notes 113
Index 115
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