Revealing the materials and craftsmanship that shaped the look of eighteenth-century architecture...

A single volume history of the full expanse of Westminster Abbey, written with the general reader...

Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

The story of an innovative designer and farsighted art entrepreneur and the important role he pla...

'Searching for the young soul rebels' -- Front cover.

An exploration of Turner's final, vital years, including new readings of some of his most signifi...

The life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting t...

An in-depth examination of William Blake's glorious and acclaimed series of twelve monoprints

A revelatory study of one of the 18th century's greatest artists, which places him in relation to...

A beautifully illustrated exploration of opulent tastes and the power of patronage in 18th-centur...

A reconstruction of the so-called ?Strand palaces', where England's early-modern and post-Reforma...

In this revelatory study of one of the great architects in British history, Vaughan Hart consider...

In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air...

This is the first biographical dictionary of engravers working on copper in Britain and Ireland d...

This long-awaited work of scholarship is the first comprehensive dictionary of everyone of import...

Examining moments of military and diplomatic crisis, this book considers how visual media shaped ...

The Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle the full architectural history of White...

A study of the Maratha military rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts...

This book offers a bold reassessment of nineteenth-century British painter and decorative artist ...

The first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait drawings reveals their complexit...

Taking a global perspective, this innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in ...

A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck

Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nat...

Explores how revolutionary ideas were translated into landscape design, encompassing liberty, equ...

A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art

A bold new study of Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian photographs, charting the legacy of coloni...

The first comprehensive exploration of Aubrey Williams’s art, revealing cross-cultural transforma...

'In the 19th century, the Aesthetic movement exalted taste, the pursuit of beauty, and self-expre...