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This book is a comprehensive, well illustrated guide to one of the most important collections of 18th-century silver in Europe, extending to nearly a thousand individual pieces, being of the highest quality, style and exuberance of form and surviving virtually intact along with extensive and previously untapped archival evidence of its commissioning and use. The book analyses the silver from stylistic and technical perspectives and uses it to shed light on the patronage, fashion, and diplomatic, political and social history of the period. It also casts new light on the Herveys, one of England's most famous and eccentric aristocratic families.
Table of Contents
Foreword [Tessa Murdoch?]
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One – Silver patronage in the early 18th century: John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
Chapter Two – Silver for the diplomatic armoury: George William, 2nd Earl of Bristol
Chapter Three – Pomp, power and politics: the later career of the 2nd Earl of Bristol
Chapter Four – Survival against the odds: the Ickworth silver after 1775.
CATALOGUE
Part 1 Silver of the 1st Earl of Bristol
Part 2 Silver of Lord and Lady Hervey
Part 3 Silver of the 2nd Earl of Bristol
Part 4 Silver from the late 18th and 19th centuries
APPENDICES
1: References to silver in the 1st Earl of Bristol's accounts
2: Documents relating to the 2nd Earl of Bristol's diplomatic plate
3: List of plate belonging to the 5th Earl of Bristol, 1811, with later additions
4. Hervey family tree
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One – Silver patronage in the early 18th century: John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol
Chapter Two – Silver for the diplomatic armoury: George William, 2nd Earl of Bristol
Chapter Three – Pomp, power and politics: the later career of the 2nd Earl of Bristol
Chapter Four – Survival against the odds: the Ickworth silver after 1775.
CATALOGUE
Part 1 Silver of the 1st Earl of Bristol
Part 2 Silver of Lord and Lady Hervey
Part 3 Silver of the 2nd Earl of Bristol
Part 4 Silver from the late 18th and 19th centuries
APPENDICES
1: References to silver in the 1st Earl of Bristol's accounts
2: Documents relating to the 2nd Earl of Bristol's diplomatic plate
3: List of plate belonging to the 5th Earl of Bristol, 1811, with later additions
4. Hervey family tree
Product details
| Published | Apr 30 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781781300428 |
| Imprint | Philip Wilson Publishers |
| Illustrations | 250 colour |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Series | National Trust Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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