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Author Tracy, Nicholas, 1944-

Title Britannia's palette : the arts of naval victory / Nicholas Tracy.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 476 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits))
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-450) and index.
Contents Artists and the navy -- The glorious first of June -- St. Vincent and Camperdown -- The Nile, Copenhagen, and minor engagements to the eve of Trafalgar -- Trafalgar -- The World War -- Official painters -- Painters of the sea -- Joseph Mallord William Turner -- Postwar painters -- App. Printing techniques.
Summary 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.
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Subject Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- In art.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- In art.
War of the First Coalition (1792-1797)
Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815)
War of the Second Coalition (1798-1801)
Naval battles in art.
Naval battles in art.
War artists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
War artists.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Art and the wars.
First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797 -- Art and the war.
Genre/Form Art and the war.
Subject Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801 -- Art and the war.
Marine painting, British -- 18th century.
Marine painting, British.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Marine painting, British -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Marine painters -- Great Britain -- History.
Marine painters.
History.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Art.
History.
Art.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 9780773531130
ISBN 9780773575851 (electronic book)
0773575855 (electronic book)
128286632X
9781282866324
0773531130
9780773531130 (print)