Fabricating the antique : neoclassicism in Britain, 1760-1800 / Viccy Coltman

Object Details

Contents: (Neo)classicism in the British library -- Worth looking at with reflection : monuments as texts and texts as monuments -- Fitt to furnish 2 or more rooms : the influence of Sir William Hamilton's vase publications on English country house furnishings -- Under the sun there is nothing new : (re)constructing Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Familiar objects in an unfamiliar world : cachet of the copy -- The cream of antiquity : Charles Townley and his August family of ancient marbles

Physical description: xii, 256 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm