Titel
SILHOUETTES - A HISTORY AND DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS ( with 300 illustrations )
Schrijver
Nevill Jackson , mrs. E.
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
ISBN 0 - 486 - 24210 - 2 ( 1981 )
Prijs
€ 10,00(Excl. verzendkosten)
Bijzonderheden
1981 , pb., 154 blz. , geill.
Meer info
unabridged edition from book edited in 1938
FRAGMENT VAN FLAPTEKST :
the sihouette took its name from Etienne de Silhouette , the notoriously parsimonious 18th-century French minister of finance who adopted the pastime of cutting out cheap paper profiles of his contempories ; even with so inauspicious an early association, this humble art quickly became one of the most popular pre-photographic forms of portraiture ; with means as simple as scissors and paper , a skillful artist could capture a remarkably faithfull likeness in a few minutes ; the less well-to-do filled albums with these inexpensive shadow portraits of family , friends and favourite celebrities, while their wealthy neighbours had silhouettes painted on costly jewelry ; at its height , silhouetting was a craze that captivated the fancy and engaged the skills of natables as diverse as Goethe , Princess Elizabeth ( daughter of King George III ) and Charles Willson Peale ...
FRAGMENT VAN FLAPTEKST :
the sihouette took its name from Etienne de Silhouette , the notoriously parsimonious 18th-century French minister of finance who adopted the pastime of cutting out cheap paper profiles of his contempories ; even with so inauspicious an early association, this humble art quickly became one of the most popular pre-photographic forms of portraiture ; with means as simple as scissors and paper , a skillful artist could capture a remarkably faithfull likeness in a few minutes ; the less well-to-do filled albums with these inexpensive shadow portraits of family , friends and favourite celebrities, while their wealthy neighbours had silhouettes painted on costly jewelry ; at its height , silhouetting was a craze that captivated the fancy and engaged the skills of natables as diverse as Goethe , Princess Elizabeth ( daughter of King George III ) and Charles Willson Peale ...
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