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May 2012: British art
Editorial
Article (6)
Paul Sandby’s young pupil identified
By Richard Green
The sitter in Paul Sandby’s famous watercolour A lady painting (c.1763–64) is here identified as Rhoda Delaval (1751–70).
Cotman’s aqueduct
By David Stacey
A reassessment of the locations of the aqueducts in John Sell Cotman’s well-known watercolour sketches (c.1805).
Post tenebras lux: J.M.W. Turner, James Wyatt and the importance of stained glass
By Andrew Wilton
An exploration of the relationship between the young Turner and the buildings of the Wyatts, the family of architects working in London before and after 1800.
‘A mild, a grateful, an unearthly lustre’: Samuel Palmer and the moon
Reviewed by Christiana Payne
A look at the influence of the imagery of the moon and its literary sources on Samuel Palmer’s paintings and prints.
‘Ecorché’ drawings by Edwin Landseer
By Susan Owens
Early écorché drawings (c.1817–21) by Edwin Landseer recently acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Robert Anning Bell in Liverpool, 1895–99: the Arts and Crafts movement and the creation of a civic culture
By Alice Eden
Robert Anning Bell’s work and teaching in Liverpool and his promotion of the Arts and Craft movement there in the 1890s.
Book Review (9)
The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Last Decade 1873–1882
Reviewed by Julian Treuherz
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Reviewed by J. B. Bullen
Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900–1918
Reviewed by James Fox
The Lion and the Unicorn: Symbolic Architecture for the Festival of Britain, 1951
Reviewed by Alex Kidd
Exhibition Review (18)
Rembrandt and the face of Jesus. Paris, Philadelphia and Detroit
Reviewed by Christopher Brown
Claes Oldenburg. Vienna, Cologne, Bilbao, New York and Minneapolis
Reviewed by Anne Blood