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Clerics & connoisseurs : the Rev. Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe family and the fortunes of an Irish art collection through three centuries / edited by Alastair Laing, with special contributions by Nicholas Turner.

Title
  1. Clerics & connoisseurs : the Rev. Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe family and the fortunes of an Irish art collection through three centuries / edited by Alastair Laing, with special contributions by Nicholas Turner.
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  1. London : English Heritage : Azimuth Editions Ltd., 2001.

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Additional authors
  1. Laing, Alastair
  2. Turner, Nicholas, 1947-
  3. Turner, Nicholas
  4. English Heritage
  5. Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood (London, England)
Description
  1. 384 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Summary
  1. This illustrated catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Kenwood (19 October 2001-27 January 2002) on an 18th century Irish house and the collection largely formed there by the Cobbe family.
Alternative title
  1. Irish art collection through three centuries
  2. Clerics and connoisseurs
  3. Clerics & connoisseurs : an Irish art collection through three centuries
  4. Rev. Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe family and the fortunes of an Irish art collection through three centuries
Subject
  1. Cobb family -- Art collections -- Exhibitions
  2. Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784 -- Exhibitions
  3. Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood (London, England) -- Exhibitions
  4. Newbridge House (Dublin, Ireland : County) -- Exhibitions
  5. Newbridge House -- Exhibitions
  6. Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Ireland -- Exhibitions
  7. Art -- Private collections -- Ireland -- Exhibitions
  8. Art -- London -- Exhibitions
  9. Art and society -- Ireland -- Exhibitions
  10. Country homes -- Dublin (County) -- Exhibitions
  11. Decorative arts -- Private collections -- Ireland -- Exhibitions
  12. Decorative arts -- London -- Exhibitions
  13. Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Dublin (County) -- Exhibitions
  14. Art -- Private collections -- Dublin (County) -- Exhibitions
  15. Decorative arts -- Private collections -- Dublin (County) -- Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs
Contents
  1. The Cobbe Museum of curiosities / Alec Cobbe -- Newbridge and the Irish country house / Knight of Glin -- James Gibbs and the design of Newbridge House / Alec Cobbe and Terry Friedman -- The Cobbe family of Hampshire and Ireland / Alec Cobbe -- Collecting in Ireland in the 18th century : the historic Cobbe collection in context / Charles Sebag-Montefiore -- Matthew Pilkington and The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters of 1770 : a landmark in art history / Barbara Bryant -- The Newbridge drawing room : a picture gallery for a Georgian villa / Julius Bryant -- Musical instruments in 18th-century Newbridge / Alec Cobbe -- The framing and restoration of the historic Cobbe collection / Alec Cobbe -- 'Through ancestral patterns dance' : the Irish portraits at Newbridge House / William Laffan -- 'A better picture to the Christian eye' : the sale of Meindert Hobbema's Wooded landscape from Newbridge / Arthur K. Wheelock Jr and Alec Cobbe.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "Published to accompany the exhibition Clerics and connoisseurs: an Irish art collection through three centuries, the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London, 19 October 2001-27 January 2002"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-382) and index.
Processing action (note)
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