NICHOLAS ANGELO
FINE ART

SPORTSMEN IN A LANDSCAPE

Aubrey Noakes

Book Description:  J. B. Liffincott Company, 1954

Hardbound - Decorative Green Cloth/Gilt

First Edition

Book Condition:  Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition:  Good/Chipped Spine & Corners

8 Color & 32 Blk. & Wht. Plates

Octavo

224 Pages

 Comprehensive survey of the English School of Sporting Artists. Salute to English Sporting Artists; Historical survey from Barlow to Munnings; Looking at history thru sporting pictures; Thru Stuart England with Francis Barlow; Peter Tillemans & early Newmarket; John Wootton; James Seymour & hunting before Hugo Meynell; Significance of George Stubbs; Marshall of Newmarket; John Fernely of Melton Mowbray; Henry Alkin as a chronicle of the regency sporting scene; Down the road with James Pollard; Herring - and racehorses; Rural England of George Morland; A handful of good 'uns - Henry Chalon, The Wolstenholmes, Sawrey Gilpin, John Nost Sartorious, Thomas Rowlandson.

In Original Slip Case