书名：Town : Prints & Drawings of Britain before 1800 / 城镇：1800年前英国的版画和绘画
定价：388.0
ISBN：9781851245178
作者：Bernard Nurse
版次：1
出版时间：2020-11

内容提要：

题 目：Town : Prints & Drawings of Britain before 1800 / 城镇：1800年前英国的版画和绘画

作 者：Bernard Nurse

出 版：Bodleian Library，2020

装 帧：精装，224页

尺 寸：27.8*23.8 cm

 

 

Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centres or as destinations offering spa treatments as in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket or naval services in Portsmouth.

 

Containing over 100 images of towns in England, Wales and Scotland, this book draws on the extensive Gough collection in the Bodleian Library. Contemporary prints and drawings provide a powerful visual record of the development of the town in this period, and finely drawn prospects and maps – made with greater accuracy than ever before – reveal their early development.

 

This book also includes perceptive observations from the journals and letters of collector Richard Gough (1735–1809), who travelled throughout the country on the cusp of the industrial age.