Toil and plenty : images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890
Payne, Christiana1993
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Discusses the ideological uses of agricultural imagery during the period 1780-1890, exploring how and why the myth of rural contentment was perpetuated by these images and how the images contrast with the actual features of 19th-century rural life.
Main title:
Toil and plenty : images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890 / Christiana Payne.
Imprint:
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c1993.
Collation:
xi,219p.,[24]p. of plates : ill(some col.), facsims., 1map, ports.(some col.) ; 27cm.
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Notes:
Published to accompany an exhibition held at Nottingham and Yale, 7 October 1993-13 March 1994.Bibliography: p211-214. - Includes index.Published in conjunction with Nottingham University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.
ISBN:
9780300057737
Language:
English
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BRN:
169447
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