John Talman: An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur (Yale Center for British Art)

by Christopher Baker (Author), Cinzia Sicca (Author), Cristina Borgioli (Author), Louisa Bulman (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $49.61

  Offers a study of John Talman, the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. This book discusses the history of Talman's acquisitions, shedding light on the competitive nature, social practices, and aesthetic ideas of connoisseurship in England and abroad.