Author | : James Barry |
Publisher | : Crawford Art Gallery |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Barry |
Publisher | : Crawford Art Gallery |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ralph Nicholson Wornum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Du Preez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : 9781786071194 |
A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari. At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier. Long ago in Cork, Ireland, he had also been a mother. This is the amazing tale of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected surgeons of the century. In an extraordinary life, she crossed paths with the British Empire's great and good, royalty and rebels, soldiers and slaves. A medical pioneer, she rose to a position that no woman before her had been allowed to occupy, but for all her successes, her long, audacious deception also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved.
Author | : James T. Boulton |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-12-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1846317916 |
The volume gathers together, and allows the reader to explore, the diverse experiences of a group of quite unconnected young, wealthy travellers as they made their way through eighteenth-century Europe towards Rome and conveyed their views by letters to friends and family at home.
Author | : Walter G. Strickland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Ingamells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This catalogue includes such famous figures as David Garrick and Dr Samuel Johnson, Sarah Siddons and Emma Hamilton, and the work of such artists as Gainsborough, Reynolds and Romney. It has been compiled by one of the leading authorities on 18th-century English portraiture, John Ingamells.
Author | : Tom Dunne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351561820 |
Bringing into relief the singularity of Barry's unswerving commitment to his vision for history painting despite adverse cultural, political and commercial currents, these essays on Barry and his contemporaries offer new perspectives on the painter's life and career. Contributors, including some of the best known experts in the field of British eighteenth-century studies, set Barry's works and writings into a rich political and social context, particularly in Britain. Among other notable achievements, the essays shed new light on the influence which Barry's radical ideology and his Catholicism had on his art; they explore his relationship with Reynolds and Blake, and discuss his aesthetics in the context of Burke and Wollstonecraft as well as Fuseli and Payne Knight. The volume is an indispensable resource for scholars of eighteenth-century British painting, patronage, aesthetics, and political history.
Author | : Richard Roche |
Publisher | : Childrens Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780947962814 |
Still the classic work on the subject -- now in a new and enlarged edition -- with "all the evidence of hard work, happily allied to a sense of style. Roche tells his story in the style of a war correspondent" -- Irish Times. This is a fascinating and heavily illustrated account of the most far-reaching event that occurred in Ireland since the introduction of Christianity.