[PDF] Britannias Palette eBook

Author : Nicholas Tracy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2007-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0773575855

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Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.

Author : Nicholas Tracy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0773531130

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Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.

Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 162365582X

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France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents, two vast French and British fleets meet in the mid-Atlantic following a week of skirmishing. After fierce fighting, both sides claim victory. In The Glorious First of June Sam Willis not only tells, with thrilling immediacy and masterly clarity, the story of an epic and complex battle, he also places it within the context of The Terror, the survival of the French Revolution and the growth of British sea-power.

Author : Nicholas Tracy
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN :

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"Professor Nicholas Tracy not only gives a detailed reconsideration of the events leading up to the battle and the engagement itself, but places great emphasis upon its wider strategic significance, particularly in relation to the war for North America"--Jacket.