Harris, J. The Artist and the Country House. A history of country house and garden view painting in Britain 1540-1870. Pub. Sotheby Parke Bernet. 1979
pp. xiii, 376 with b/w. and some colour plates. A vg. plus copy in same dw.
The author here presents the first extensive analysis of the subject since the work of the same title by Steegman and Stroud. He studies from these beginnings the growth of tradition in Britain and Ireland up until the mid Victorian period, illustrating a remarkable variety of the paintings which he discusses.
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