Those Delightful Regions of Imagination: Essays on George Romney

Kidson, Alex (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0300094582 / ISBN 13: 9780300094589

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2002

About this Item

Grey cloth. Pictorial jacket. 255 x 175 mm. xvi, 290 pp, including 8 pp colour plates. B&w figures in the text. Studies in British Art 9. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art & The Yale Center for British Art. Light dust spotting on top edge. Previous owner's name and date, with the name hatched out, in top corner of front end-paper. Jacket lightly dulled at spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Those Delightful Regions of Imagination: Essays on George Romney
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300094582
• ISBN 13: 9780300094589
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art, craft, design

About this title

Synopsis

This collection of writings by specialists from many disciplines explores a wide range of topics relating to English painter George Romney (1734–1802). The contributors to the book address not only Romney’s personality and artistic practice, but also aspects of the cultural context of his work, such as its relation to theater and its diffusion through prints. Key essays discuss the central themes of the artist’s work, his rivalry with Sir Joshua Reynolds, and his painting technique. Alex Kidson offers in the introduction a survey of previous writings about Romney and their impact on the artist’s reputation two centuries after his death.



Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

About the Author

Alex Kidson is curator of British art, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.