BHS Records Series Volumes Banbury past through artists' eyes
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
090012928X
ISBN 13
9780900129285
Category
Oxfordshire
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Banbury Historical Society, United Kingdom
Volume
Volume 30
Pages
128pp.
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Abstract
This is a unique collection of around two hundred paintings, drawings and engravings of Banbury, mainly as it was in the 18th and 19th century. Accompanying the illustrations are notes on what can be discovered in them and, more important, comment by contemporaries of the scenes they show. In particular George Herbert recalls the Banbury of his youth in the 1830s, with often scurrilous tales of who lived in each house on view. It also includes many paintings by Maurice Draper. A series of paintings of the canal reminds us of its commercial importance, now replaced by leisure activity.
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