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Nollekens and His Times (Century English Tradition) 🔍
John Thomas Smith; Walter Sydney Sichel Century Hutchinson Ltd, The Century lives & letters, New ed, London, 1986?
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Joseph Nollekens, the fashionable and infamous sculptor who worked in London between 1770 and 1823, produced bustos of almost everyone of consequence in his day. Despite his eccentricity and bad manners, sordid appearance and notorious stinginess he numbered people as highly-respected as Johnson, Garrick and Reynolds among his many admirers and friends.
John Thomas Smith, keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, distinguished art critic and former pupil of Nollekens, first produced this rambling memoir in 1828, five years after his subject's death. It not only gives a unique portrait of Nollekens himself, but is a mine of information about the topography, sights and sounds of London in its Georgian heyday.
Inviting inevitable comparison with Boswell's Life of Johnson , this is a memoir that will delight anyone interested in either our historic or artistic heritage, or the character of the past.
Alternative author
Smith, J. T.
Alternative publisher
C W Daniel Co Ltd
Alternative publisher
Arrow Books Ltd
Alternative publisher
Orbit
Alternative edition
The century lives & letters, London [u.a, 1986
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative edition
Paperback edition., PT, 1986
Alternative edition
September 1986
Alternative edition
1986-09-01
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Obscured text on leaf 3 due to sticker attached.
date open sourced
2024-11-05
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