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Viccy Coltman

Fabricating the Antique

Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760-1800

248 pages, 5 color plates, 85 halftones  7-1/2 x 9  © 2005

Cloth $48.00

ISBN: 9780226113968   Published October 2006

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations


Getting into the Classical Mood 1

1          (Neo)classicism in the British Library

2          “Worth looking at with reflection”

Monuments as Texts and Texts as Monuments

3          “Fitt to furnish 2 or more rooms”

The Influence of Sir William Hamilton’s Vase Publications on English

Country House Furnishings

4          “Under the sun there is nothing new”

(Re)constructing Pompeii and Herculaneum

5          “Familiar objects in an unfamiliar world”

The Cachet of the Copy

6          The Cream of Antiquity

Charles Townley and His August Family of Ancient Marbles


Conclusion
Select Bibliography

Notes

Index
Subjects



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