Order Nr. 89525 NARRATIVE PICTURES, A SURVEY OF ENGLISH GENRE AND ITS PAINTERS. Sacheverell Sitwell.

NARRATIVE PICTURES, A SURVEY OF ENGLISH GENRE AND ITS PAINTERS.

  • New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
  • small 4to.
  • cloth
  • vi, 122 pages.

Price: $45.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 89525

First U.S. edition (Fifoot SA31 - one of 250 to 268 copies). Sitwell disputes the theory that most British painting took its inspiration from literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and posits that "narrative" painting was a significant main stream in British art. His point is well-illustrated, in colour and monochrome, by examples from Hogarth, Gainsborough, Turner, Millais, Cruikshank, Tissot, and many lesser known artists of the era. Notes on the illustrations by Michael Seaver. Index. Minor rubbing.