Sir John Gilbert
Subtitle: art and imagination in the Victorian age
By: edited by Spike Bucklow and Sally Woodcock ; with contributions by Mark Bills ... [et al.].
Contributors: Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897; Guildhall Art Gallery
Publisher: Lund Humphries; Brand: Lund Humphries
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781848220799
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Victorian Art
Notes: Published by Lund Humphries in association with Guildhall Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, Apr. 29-Aug. 29, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sir John Gilbert: a biographical sketch  -- Vivien Knight and Mark Bills; title: The Blackheath of John Gilbert  -- Neil Rhind; title: John Gilbert as a book illustrator: master of historical romance  -- Paul Goldman; title: 'A distinctive character to the illustration of news': Sir Johh Gilbert and the pictorial press  -- Mark Bills; title: 'He kinged it there among the nigglers': Sir John Gilbert and the Royal Watercolour Society  -- Timothy Wilcox; title: Gilbert in Fairyland: The enchanted forest and the transfigured landscape  -- Nicola Brown -- Sir John Gilbert and the Old Masters / -- Kathleen Froyen; title: Gilbert: his relationship with contemporary practice ; title: Spike Bucklow --; title: A marriage of methods: exploring Gilbert's ordinary and extraordinary uses of watercolour and the gouache techniques  -- Libby Sheldon; title: Gilbert's frames and their context in Guildhall Art Gallery  -- Caroline Oliver; title: Utility, versatility and obscurity: the sources and selection of SIr John Gilbert's oil painting materials  -- Sally Woodcock; title: Gilbert's account with his colourman, Charles Roberson & Co. -- Technical examination of Sir John Gilbert's watercolours and oil paintings from the collection of Guildhall Art Gallery, London --; title: Selected list of works exhibited or sold in Gilbert's lifetime, from published sources and sketchbook references.