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Sarah Stone | |||
| Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds | Art | |||
| Christine E Jackson | ||||
| Merrell 1998 159 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 185894063X 290x225mm | ||||
| Published Price £29.95 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| From about 1777, Sarah Stone (ca 1760-1844) was employed by the entrepreneur Sir Ashton Lever to record the contents of his private museum - specimens being brought back by British expeditions (including Cook's voyages) to Australia, the Americas, Africa and the Far East in the 1780s and 1790s. Her meticulous watercolours of flora and fauna are now in the Natural History Museum, London. This volume presents reproductions of 59 examples, along with essays on Sarah Stone, Lever and his museum, and other artists represented there. | ||||
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Fairford Parish Church | |||
| A Medieval Church and its Stained Glass | Art | |||
| Sarah Brown; Lindsay Macdonald (Edited by) | ||||
| Sutton 2007 175 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 075094692X 260x193mm | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| St Mary's Church in Fairford, Gloucestershire, is home to one of Europe's finest surviving sets of medieval stained glass windows: installed in the early 16th century, they depict scenes ranging from the Creation to the Last Judgement. Painstaking conservation work has recently revealed again their remarkable detail and craftsmanship, and this book discusses both the windows' design and the story of their survival and repair. The text is complemented with photographs of all 28 windows and the church's other architectural features. | ||||
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Picturesque Chester | |||
| The City in Art | Art | |||
| Peter Boughton | ||||
| Phillimore 1997 128 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1860770398 296x210mm | ||||
| Published Price £14.95 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| Chester was founded by the Romans in 79 CE, and its long history is reflected in a remarkable architectural heritage: buildings such as the unique two-storey 'Rows', the Gothic cathedral and Tudor half- timbered houses have inspired artists for centuries. Ranging from the Plan of Chester in 1581 to 1990s watercolours, the 200 paintings, drawings and prints reproduced here are drawn from the Grosvenor Museum's collection of Chester topography. With Peter Broughton's detailed captions, they provide a fascinating view of the city and its architectural history. | ||||
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