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Author : N. J. McCamley
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2003-03-19
Saving Britain S Art Treasures written by N. J. McCamley and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-19 with History categories.
This book explains for the first time the full story of the wartime adventures of Britain's greatest art treasures. At first the pictures and other artifacts were distributed amongst a number of large country houses. Initially the owners of these houses almost fought one another for the right to house the Treasures. Later, when further accommodation was needed for treasures from the provincial museums, the tables turned and the Office of Works was reduced to bribing owners by promising that they would be spared billetees, and that their houses would be immune from requisitioning. By mid 1940 however, circumstances transpired that made the country houses untenable. German air bases in northern France made the whole of Britain vulnerable. Eventually two deep underground repositories were constructed, one in Wales and one in Wiltshire, and by the end of 1942 virtually all the cultural heritage of the nation was concentrated there. Building and operation of these underground treasure houses did not, however, go smoothly, as described here.
Treasures Of Art In Great Britain
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Author : Gustav Friedrich Waagen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
Treasures Of Art In Great Britain written by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with Art categories.
The set owned by Sir George Scharf, director of the National Portrait Gallery. Scharf has annotated and interleaved these pages with manuscripts and letters received, newspaper clippings, and printed pamphlets, in effect producing an unpublished corrected and enlarged second edition. In a fair copy of a letter to John Murray (1855 March 16), Scharf cites numerous errata and inaccuracies in Waagen. Scharf had access to the great historic homes and private collections of art in England and based his revisions on first-hand knowledge. Newspaper clippings record the loss, dispersal or sale of the collections originally surveyed by Waagen. Letters received from connoisseurs, collectors, and artists include Lord Cowper, Lady Louisa Egerton, Frederic George Stephens, W.A. Scott Robertson, George Redford, the Earl of Ellesmere, R.S. Holford, and Sir Charles Lock Eastlake. Printed materials include "A Catalogue of the Orleans' Italian pictures ..." (London, 1798) and the text of Scharf's paper on the paintings in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1862 Nov. 20). The first volume of the set contains a dedication to Scharf from the translator, Lady Eastlake.
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Author : Gustav Friedrich Waagen
language : en
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Release Date : 1854
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National Treasures
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Author : Caroline Shenton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-11-11
National Treasures written by Caroline Shenton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with History categories.
'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research, Caroline Shenton has done her unlikely heroes proud' - Lucy Worsley As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries and archives formulated ingenious plans to send the nation's highest prized objects to safety. Using stately homes, tube tunnels, slate mines, castles, prisons, stone quarries and even their own homes, a dedicated bunch of unlikely misfits packed up the nation's greatest treasures and, in a race against time, dispatched them throughout the country on a series of top-secret wartime adventures. National Treasures highlights a moment from our history when an unlikely coalition of mild-mannered civil servants, social oddballs and metropolitan aesthetes became the front line in the heritage war against Hitler. Caroline Shenton shares the interwoven lives of ordinary people who kept calm and carried on in the most extraordinary of circumstances in their efforts to save the Nation's historic identity.
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Author : Gustav Friedrich Waagen
language : en
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Release Date : 2003
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Author : Gustav Friedrich Waagen
language : en
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Release Date : 1970
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Art Treasures Of England
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Author : Jane Martineau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Art Treasures Of England written by Jane Martineau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
This major publication, containing 450 color illustrations, reveals the greatest art treasures of English regional collections, built up from the foundation in the 17th century of the first university collections, through the purchases of Victorian paintings by municipal art galleries and philanthropic patrons in 19th-century industrial towns and cities, to the collecting of Old Master paintings and drawings and modern British art in this century.
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Author : Gustav Friedrich Waagen
language : en
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Release Date : 1854
Treasures Of Art In Great Britain written by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with Art categories.
The set owned by Sir George Scharf, director of the National Portrait Gallery. Scharf has annotated and interleaved these pages with manuscripts and letters received, newspaper clippings, and printed pamphlets, in effect producing an unpublished corrected and enlarged second edition. In a fair copy of a letter to John Murray (1855 March 16), Scharf cites numerous errata and inaccuracies in Waagen. Scharf had access to the great historic homes and private collections of art in England and based his revisions on first-hand knowledge. Newspaper clippings record the loss, dispersal or sale of the collections originally surveyed by Waagen. Letters received from connoisseurs, collectors, and artists include Lord Cowper, Lady Louisa Egerton, Frederic George Stephens, W.A. Scott Robertson, George Redford, the Earl of Ellesmere, R.S. Holford, and Sir Charles Lock Eastlake. Printed materials include "A Catalogue of the Orleans' Italian pictures ..." (London, 1798) and the text of Scharf's paper on the paintings in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1862 Nov. 20). The first volume of the set contains a dedication to Scharf from the translator, Lady Eastlake.
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Author : Algernon Graves
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-10
Treasures Of Art In Great Britain written by Algernon Graves and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
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Treasures Of Art In Great Britain Being An Account Of The Chief Collections Of Paintings Drawings Sculptures Illuminated Mss C C
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Author : Algernon Graves
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-02-17
Treasures Of Art In Great Britain Being An Account Of The Chief Collections Of Paintings Drawings Sculptures Illuminated Mss C C written by Algernon Graves and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-17 with Art categories.
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