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paperback. Condizione: Fine. still in original shrinkwrap - VERY NICE Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st. xii, 216 pages, v pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition "Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door," co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art 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. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the editor Ann Bermingham, with a personalized inscription. A near-fine copy, age toning. *** CONTENTS: Gainsborough's cottage door: sensation and sensibility, by Ann Bermingham; 1: Cottages and The cottage door's cultural significance; "Innocence and health": nursing women in Gainsborough's cottage-door paintings, by Susan Sloman; Spectacles for republicans, by John Barrell; 2: Gainsborough and the theme of the "cottage door"; Gainsborough's cottage doors: a matter of modernity, by Michael Rosenthal; Gainsborough's cottage-door scenes: aesthetic principles, moral values, by Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson; 3: Collectors and The cottage door; The early collectors of The cottage door, by Dongho Chun; Gainsborough's Cottage door in Sir John Leicester's 'tent room', by Ann Bermingham; 4: Gainsborough and de Loutherbourg: sensation and the landscape of special effects; Magic in the studio, by William Vaughan; Magic, spectacle and the art of de Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon, by Iain McCalman. Size: 4to. SIGNED. Collectible.…