Noble Households

Eighteenth Century Inventories of Great English Houses - a Tribute to John Cornforth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, these great house inventories document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them. John Cornforth (1937-2004), the eminent architectural historian and passionate advocate of the historic interior, believed that inventories were an unrivalled primary resource for the interpretation of the historic interior. The book serves as a tribute to his lifelong interest in the field. Cornforth saw the importance of inventories in inspiring not just changes in approach to the history of the great house, but in underpinning the interpretation of the way in which these houses were used and lived in. They reflect the interest in household management, the daily lives of the servants who maintained the house while the owner was absent, and the equipment needed to provide for grand entertainments when the owner was at home. Now that there is such fascination with the history of food and life below stairs, the contents of the kitchen and scullery assume as much interest as the grand rooms of entertainment.These inventories provide an opportunity to compare the arrangements of the interiors of the great country houses and town houses of the same noble families in different generations. They will inspire yet fuller interpretations of the households they document, and appeal to country house visitors and historians of interiors, patronage and collecting, as well as to art directors of historical films and creative designers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-11-21
Mått:216 x 283 x 31 mm
Vikt:1 048 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:John Adamson Publishing Consultants
ISBN:9780952432258

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Tessa Murdoch, FSA, was research curator, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, following thirty years' curatorial experience in the collections there of ceramics, glass, furniture, woodwork, metalwork and sculpture. Her work on Huguenot refugee art and culture for which she was awarded the prestigious Getty Rothschild Fellowship, 2019, was published on 25 November 2021. She worked with John Cornforth on the publication Boughton House: The English Versailles, 1992.

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'John Adamson in Cambridge has produced and printed a handsome volume ... The index demonstrates the value of inventories for an understanding of the furnished interior'. John Harris, The Art Newspaper; 'This book is an important step in the wider recognition of archival studies in relation to the social and cultural history of England ... Murdoch provides succinct and helpful editorial and summary introductions for each inventory (with one provided for Drayton House by Bruce Bailey) ... The index is also invaluable and provides the key to comparing the houses'. Andrew Moore, The Burlington Magazine

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Montagu Inventories; Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, 1709 and 1733; Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 1709, 1718, 1730; Ditton House, Buckinghamshire, 1709; Montagu House, Whitehall, London, 1746; Part II: The Drayton Inventories; Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1710 and 1724; Part III: The Ditchley Inventories; Ditchley, Oxfordshire, 1743 and 1772; Part IV: Norfolk Inventories; Houghton Hall, 1745 and 1792; Holkham Hall, Norfolk and Thanet House, London, 1760; Part V: Inventories of the Marquess of Carmarthen; Kiveton and Thorp Salvin, Yorkshire, 1727; Part VI: The Marlborough Inventories. Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and Marlborough House, London, 1740; Bibliography; Photographic credits; Glossary; Index.