Author: SECORD, WILLIAM
Title: Dog painting 1840-1940 : a social history of the dog in art : including an important historical overview from earliest times to 1840 when pure-bred dogs became popular
Description: Woodbridge. Suffolk : Antique Collectors' Club 2002. Sixth Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 367 pages; Description: 367 p. : illus. (some col.). frontis. ; 28 cm. Summary: William Secord is the first author to explore the presentation of the dog. from its origins in Greek. Roman and later European art. to the remarkable paintings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up to modern times. In this splendid work he traces the evolution of some fifty breeds. using carefully selected illustrations by outstanding nineteenth and twentieth century artists. ranging from depictions of hounds and sporting dogs in the field to Victorian portraits of pampered pets and highly-bred favourites. Subjects: Dogs in art -- Dogs -- History. Painting. Modern -- 19th / 20th century. Notes: Includes colour frontis. and endpapers. Bibliography: p.358-361.ISBN: 1851491392. Weight in Kg appr.:

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