Sensation & sensibility : viewing Gainsborough's cottage door /
Bermingham, Ann.
Yale Center for British Art.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
New Haven, Conn. : Yale Center for British Art ; San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens ; New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press,
c2005.
Gainsborough's cottage door: sensation and sensibility / Ann Bermingham -- 1: Cottages and The cottage door's cultural significance -- "Innocence and health": nursing women in Gainsborough's cottage-door paintings / Susan Sloman -- Spectacles for republicans / John Barrell -- 2: Gainsborough and the theme of the "cottage door" -- Gainsborough's cottage doors: a matter of modernity / Michael Rosenthal -- Gainsborough's cottage-door scenes: aesthetic principles, moral values / Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson -- 3: Collectors and The cottage door -- The early collectors of The cottage door / Dongho Chun -- Gainsborough's Cottage door in Sir John Leicester's 'tent room' / Ann Bermingham -- 4: Gainsborough and de Loutherbourg: sensation and the landscape of special effects -- Magic in the studio / William Vaughan -- Magic, spectacle and the art of de Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon / Iain McCalman.
"Accompanies the exhibition Sensation and sensibility: viewing Gainsborough's cottage door, co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens ... at the YCBA from 6 October to 31 December 2005 and at the Huntington from 11 February to 14 May 2006"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-211) and index.
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788
Rural poor in art.
Genre painting, English
Art