Picturing Britain
Subtitle: time and place in image and text, 1700-1850
By: Katherine Haskins.
Publisher: University of Chicago Library
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Landscape -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions; Landscape -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Great Britain -- Historical geography -- Exhibitions
Description: "... Explores how printed books helped consolidate and communicate developing concepts of a British national identity. This theme is traced in both specialized works issued for a sophisticated audience and popular ones for general readers. The focus is on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ..."--Preface, p. vii.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.