The Age Of The Grand Tour
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The book begins with a brilliantly evocative essay by Anthony Burgess, which strikingly recreates the Grand Tour experience, and a brief but penetrating article on eighteenth-century art by Francis Haskell. The book includes sixteen full-page colour plates and four facsimile views by Piranesi and Zocchi, magnificent examples of the painters' and the engravers' art, all superbly reproduced with sensitive accuracy. The art of Turner, Tiepolo, Wattreau and Canaletto has never appeared to a greater advantage. Throughout the book are interspersed more than 230 monochrome engravings, water-colours and drawings. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The colourful dustcover is quite heavily damaged around the edges with tares and discolouration but it has done its job well because the underlying yellow hardback is in good condition with just a little discolouration around the edges due to the dust cover tears. Internally the pages are a little yellowed with slight foxing on their edges but otherwise clean and unmarked.
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