Title: Art and money in the writings of Tobias Smollett /
Authors: Gibson, William, 1974-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Smollett, T. Criticism and interpretation.; Smollett, T. Knowledge Art.; Smollett, T. Aesthetics.; Smollett, T. Characters Artists.; Art in literature.; Artists in literature; Art Marketing History
Contents: Introduction : a Scot, fine art, money, and the need for criticism -- Commerce and aesthetics : Smollett as witness to the birth of the commercial art market -- "That laudable ardour for improvement" : Smollett's art reviews in The Critical Review, 1756-63 -- Smollett's portrait of a painter : Layman Pallet in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle -- A courtesan, a cockpit, and a peasant : iconoclastic tourism in Travels Through France and Italy -- Bath and other follies : landscape painting and fashionable architecture in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker -- Appendix I : the fine art articles in the Critical Review, 1756-63 -- Appendix II : the illustration of the Complete History and its Continuation.