The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century

The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780719047251
  • DDC分類 941

Full Description


This work explores the British country house during the period 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of both the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. It provides insight into many different areas: the role and rank of family and sevants, furniture, landscape, architecture, painting, scultpture, style, food and entertainment are all discussed and allow him to invoke a sense of 18th-century life as it was experienced by the inhabitants of these homes. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of the political significance of the country house in the Georgian period.

Contents

The country house and money; the architecture of the country house; role and rank - family and servants; the landscape; a temple to the arts; furnishing the country house; entertainment.