Treasures of Art in Great Britain Waagen Eastlake Paperback Volume 3

Treasures of Art in Great BritainBeing an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss.\nAuthor(s): Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Elizabeth Eastlake\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108078887, 978-1108078887\nSynopsis\nThis four-volume work by Gustav Friedrich Waagen [tel], edited and translated by Lady Eastlake [tel], was published between 1854 and 1857. As Waagen explains in his preface to the first volume, he had previously published an account of his experiences on his first visit to Britain in 1835, but this new and longer work was addressed primarily to a British audience. It also differs in that the earlier work was more of a general travelogue, whereas these volumes, after an introductory essay, provide a more detailed catalogue - albeit in epistolary form - of works of art in public and private collections. Waagen was crucial to the adoption in Brita.