Empire to nation
Subtitle: art, history and the visualization of maritime Britain, 1768-1829
By: Geoff Quilley
Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780300175684
Subjects: British Marine art; National characteristics, British, in art; Nationalism and art; History
Other titles: Art, history and the visualization of maritime Britain, 1768-1829
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The pen in the first person : the artist as eyewitness on voyages of exploration; title: 'Tahiti revisited' : the historicizing visual order of the world in the art of Cook's voyages; title: A sea of faith : visualizing maritime Britain and the articulation of national identity in the Atlantic world; title: 'Framed by a Black': shipwreck and masculinity in the Black Atlantic; title: Commerce, luxury and the moralization of shipwreck : the East India Company; title: The image of the sailor; title: War and Britishness; title: Battle of the pictures : painting the history of Trafalgar; title: Conclusion.