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Author Quilley, Geoff.
Title Empire to nation : art, history and the visualization of maritime Britain 1768-1829 / Geoff Quilley.
Alternative Title Art, history and the visualization of maritime Britain 1768-1829
Publication Info New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2011.


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Descript x, 294 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents Introduction -- The pen in the first person : the artist as eyewitness on voyages of exploration -- 'Tahiti revisited' : the historicizing visual order of the world in the art of Cook's voyages -- A sea of faith : visualizing maritime Britain and the articulation of national identity in the Atlantic world -- 'Framed by a Black': shipwreck and masculinity in the Black Atlantic -- Commerce, luxury and the moralization of shipwreck : the East India Company -- The image of the sailor -- War and Britishness -- Battle of the pictures : painting the history of Trafalgar -- Conclusion.
ISBN 9780300175684 (hbk.)
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Author Quilley, Geoff.
Subject Nationalism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Nationalism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Marine art, British -- 18th century.
Marine art, British -- 19th century.
National characteristics, British, in art.
Alternative Title Art, history and the visualization of maritime Britain 1768-1829
Descript x, 294 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents Introduction -- The pen in the first person : the artist as eyewitness on voyages of exploration -- 'Tahiti revisited' : the historicizing visual order of the world in the art of Cook's voyages -- A sea of faith : visualizing maritime Britain and the articulation of national identity in the Atlantic world -- 'Framed by a Black': shipwreck and masculinity in the Black Atlantic -- Commerce, luxury and the moralization of shipwreck : the East India Company -- The image of the sailor -- War and Britishness -- Battle of the pictures : painting the history of Trafalgar -- Conclusion.
ISBN 9780300175684 (hbk.)
Author Quilley, Geoff.
Subject Nationalism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Nationalism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Marine art, British -- 18th century.
Marine art, British -- 19th century.
National characteristics, British, in art.
Alternative Title Art, history and the visualization of maritime Britain 1768-1829
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 7th Floor  N 72 N38 Q6  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 BJL 7th Floor  N 72 N38 Q6  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Nationalism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Nationalism and art -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Marine art, British -- 18th century.
Marine art, British -- 19th century.
National characteristics, British, in art.
Descript x, 294 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents Introduction -- The pen in the first person : the artist as eyewitness on voyages of exploration -- 'Tahiti revisited' : the historicizing visual order of the world in the art of Cook's voyages -- A sea of faith : visualizing maritime Britain and the articulation of national identity in the Atlantic world -- 'Framed by a Black': shipwreck and masculinity in the Black Atlantic -- Commerce, luxury and the moralization of shipwreck : the East India Company -- The image of the sailor -- War and Britishness -- Battle of the pictures : painting the history of Trafalgar -- Conclusion.
ISBN 9780300175684 (hbk.)

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