Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery London

Crane, David

ISBN 10: 1855143372 / ISBN 13: 9781855143371

Published by National Portrait Gallery Publications, London, United Kingdom, 2002

About this Item

160 pages, superbly illustrated almost wholly in colour. Published to accompany the American tour of the National Portrait Gallery's Regency portraits in 2002. Bibliography.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery London
• Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855143372
• ISBN 13: 9781855143371
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None

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Synopsis

This book brings an engaging cast of Regency characters vividly to life through a vigorous combination of words and pictures. Biographical sketches accompany portraits from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery with the whole introduced by an original and thought-provoking essay from Richard Holmes. Together they illustrate all the diversity and exuberance of Regency England - its triumphs, dramas, paradoxes, successes and excesses. It was a period of seismic political change, of revolutionary scientific discovery, of towering artistic achievement, of military triumph and of social scandal. From American Independence to the shocking trial of Queen Caroline, from vaccination to the Battle of Waterloo, from Don Juan to the Abolition of slavery, this book offers a fascinating portrait of a thrilling period in British history.

About the Author

The distinguished literary biographer Richard Holmes is well known for his many books on the Romantic period, including Shelley the Pursuit (1975), Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000), and his two-volume life of Coleridge, which won the Whitbread Prize and was a New York Times Editor's Choice. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and the first Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia. After reading English at Oxford, David Crane taught in various universities in England and America. He is the author of an acclaimed biography of Trelawney, Lord Byron's Jackal, and his book on Byron's widow; The Kindness of Sisters is to be published in the New Year.