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001 00049947
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005 20150207073253.0
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050 00 $aN5247.W28$bB76 2001
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100 1 $aBrownell, Morris R.
245 14 $aThe prime minister of taste :$ba portrait of Horace Walpole /$cMorris R. Brownell.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$cc2001.
300 $avii, 353 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c27 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: THE TRIFLER RESORED -- Connoisseur Manque -- The Courtesy-Book Gentleman and the ar, t0. -- Lord Chesterfield's Vade-Mecum for the Manof fTaS:-'' -- PART I THE MAKING OF A PORTRAITIST -- CHAPTER 2 NO CONNOISSEUR, COLLECTING ON THE GRAND TOUR -- 'My Glorious Eagle' -- 'Far Gone in Medals': Stosch's Gladiator -- 'Two or Three Pictures' -- CHAPTER 3 KEEPER OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S PICTURES -- Accumulating Capital Pictures -- Aedes Walpolianae: Putting Down Italian Painters -- Aedes Walpolianae: Panegyrical Pictures -- 'The Shipwreck of my Family': Sale of the Houghton -- House Collection -- CHAPTER 4 GEORGE VERTUE, WALPOLE'S PRIVY COUNCILLOR -- FOR PORTRAITS -- 'The First and Chiefest of his Profession' -- 'Mr Walpole Told Me': Meetings with George Vertue -- 'Now Mr Walpole's' -- Rummaging Country Houses for Portraits -- No Antiquary: Ghost Writing English Art History -- PART II A LITTLE CASTLE ADORNED WITH PORTRAITS -- CHAPTER 5 PORTRAITS AT STRAWBERRY HILL-I -- Anne Liddell and Walpole's Dream of Portraits -- The Marriage of Henry VI, and 'The Sagacity of -- my Guesses' -- The Marriage of Henry VII, and the Pleasure of -- Imaginary Portraits. -- Catherine Parr's Corpse -- CHAPTER 6 PORTRAITS AT STRAWBERRY HILL-II -- 'Monumenting' Portraits -- Lady Frances Howard,'Madame l'Empoisonneuse' -- Frances Brydges, Countess of Exeter -- Catherine Fitzgerald, 'My Old Countess of Desmond' -- CHAPTER 7 PORTRAITS AT STRAWBERRY HILL-III -- Walpole's'Rage for Grammont' -- Walpole's 'Chapter of Royal Concubines' -- Bianca Cappello -- Ninon L'Enclos, 'N6tre Dame des Amours' -- 'The Sweet Portrait of Madame de Prie' -- Twenty Pictures of Madame Maintenon -- 'Our Madame Maintenon' -- Possessing Madame d'Olonne -- PART III PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS -- CHAPTER 8 IDENTIFYING PORTRAITS: WALPOLE'S CATALOGUES AND -- LETTERS -- Walpole's Society of Artists' Catalogue (1762) -- Walpole's Royal Academy Catalogue (1771) -- Portraits in Walpole's Memoirs and Letters -- CHAPTER 9 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: MARIA WALPOLE -- A Wedding Portrait -- Lady Waldegrave in Mourning -- 'The Transitory Happiness of Red Liveries' -- The Three Ladies Waldegrave -- CHAPTER IO PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: MARRIAGE A LA MODE -- Lavinia Bingham, Lady Althorp -- Frances Pelham -- Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston -- CHAPTER I I PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: SCANDAL -- Sir Henry Bate Dudley -- William O'Brien -- Elizabeth Catherine Hunter -- Lord and Lady Ligonier -- Dorothy Seymour Fleming -- CHAPTER 12 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: ARISTOCRATS -- Sir Hugh Smithson, 'Antiquated Duke' -- CHAPTER 13 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: STATESMEN -- Richard Grenville, 'Historic Strulbrug' -- John Montagu, A 'Dissolute Sad Dog' -- CHAPTER 14 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: OUTPENSIONERS -- Chevalier D'Eon, 'A Complication of Abominations' -- Baron Ferrers, 'Mad About Pedigree' / -- Edward Wortley Montagu, 'Our Greatest Miracle' -- CHAPTER 15 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: MODERN LITERATI -- Samuel Johnson, 'Saucy Caliban' -- Edward Gibbon,'Vanity is not Vice' -- CHAPTER 16 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: TWO GROUPS -- Reynolds's Bedford Children -- Zoffany's Tribuna, Equivocating About Portraits -- CHAPTER 17 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: THE GUNNINGHIAD -- Et in Arcadia Ego, The Ghost of Maria Gunning -- Elizabeth Gunning, 'Uncommon Noise of Beauty' -- John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll -- PART IV CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 18 WALPOLE'S SELF-PORTRAIT, THE PRIME MINISTER OF TASTE -- Walpole's Letters, A Masquerade of Self-Portraits -- The Self-Portrait of the Trifler -- The Herald of Fame -- The Enemy of Artists -- Homo Ludens -- Short Titles and Abbreviations -- Notes -- Notes to the Illustrations -- Index.
600 10 $aWalpole, Horace,$d1717-1797$xArt collections.
650 0 $aArt$xCollectors and collecting$zEngland$zLondon.
610 20 $aStrawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00049947.html