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British art treasures from Russian Imperial collections in the Hermitage / edited by Brian Allen and Larissa Dukelskaya.

Contributor(s): Allen, Brian, 1952- | Dukelʹskai͡a, L. A. (Larisa Aleksandrovna) | Yale Center for British Art
Publisher: New Haven ; London : Published for the Yale Center for British Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Sate Hermitage Museum and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1996.Description: 328 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.ISBN: 0300069464 (cloth); 0300069561 (paper)Subject(s): Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) -- Exhibitions | Art -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- Exhibitions | Art, British -- Exhibitions | Great Britain -- Relations -- Russia | Russia -- Relations -- Great Britain
Contents:
Contents: Cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth century / Anthony Cross --British paintings in the Hermitage and Catherine the Great / Larissa Dukelskaya --Houghton sale / Andrew Moore --Sir Joshua Reynolds and the court of Catherine the Great / Martin Postle -- Scottish architects in Imperial Russia and their drawings in the Hermitage / Miliza Korshunova --British gardeners and the vogue of the English garden in late eighteenth-century Russia / Anthony Cross --James Walker: a British engraver in St. Petersburg / Alan Bird --British artists in Russia in the first half of the ninteenth century / Elizaveta Renne --Wedgwood's Green Frog Service and the Imperial court / Lydia Liackhova --English silver in St. Petersburg / Marina Lopato --Engraved gems in Britain: the Russian perspective / Yulia Kagan.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Prints and Drawings Shelves Be.7.35 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available PD10007793
Book Book British Museum Britain Europe and Prehistory Shelves SR 9B 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 10020294
Total holds: 0

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Yale Center for British Art and held at the Center Oct. 5, 1996-Jan. 5, 1997 and at 3 other art museums, Feb. 13, 1997 through Winter 1997/1998.

Includes bibliography: p. 322-328.

Contents: Cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth century / Anthony Cross --British paintings in the Hermitage and Catherine the Great / Larissa Dukelskaya --Houghton sale / Andrew Moore --Sir Joshua Reynolds and the court of Catherine the Great / Martin Postle -- Scottish architects in Imperial Russia and their drawings in the Hermitage / Miliza Korshunova --British gardeners and the vogue of the English garden in late eighteenth-century Russia / Anthony Cross --James Walker: a British engraver in St. Petersburg / Alan Bird --British artists in Russia in the first half of the ninteenth century / Elizaveta Renne --Wedgwood's Green Frog Service and the Imperial court / Lydia Liackhova --English silver in St. Petersburg / Marina Lopato --Engraved gems in Britain: the Russian perspective / Yulia Kagan.