Nineteenth-Century Painting: A Study in Conflict

by

John Rothenstein M.A. (Oxon), Ph.D. (London)

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited

1932 (1st)

Hardcover in original red cloth, x + 191pp + 4pp publisher's ads. Covers a little worn, and spine sunned.  Internally good.  Significant association copy - inscribed to the owner of the house where the book was written.

Inscribed on the front endpaper by the author to Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva Duncombe (née Greville, later Beckett), Countess of Feversham of Ryedale (1884-1964), Daughter of 5th Earl of Warwick; former wife of 2nd Earl of Feversham of Ryedale, and later wife of Sir William Gervase Beckett. In appreciation of having stayed at her house whilst writing this book.

Bookplate on front pastedown with Lady Marjorie Beckett's cipher, featuring the letter M and an overlaid bee, and her village name, Rievaulx.

Laid in is a newspaper clipping showing a portrait of politician Mr. Augustine Birrell, K.C., by Reginald H. Campbell.

The book's chapter headings are: Ingres, Constable, Bonington, Turner, Rousseau, Corot, Delacroix, Daumier, Millet, Courbet, and Impressionism.

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