Common Land in English Painting, 1700-1850

by Ian Waites

An examination of the treatment of common land in the work of English painters, at a time when much of it was to disappear forever.

A most elegantly written book that calmly knocked many entrenched but erroneous notions about British landscape painting firmly on the head. Longlisted and commended by the judges of the 2013 William M. B. Berger prize forBritish art history.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, much of England's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843837617
• ISBN13: 9781843837619
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.6" x 6.8"