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- catalog abstract "John Russell's memoir of London goes back to before the great fire of 1666, when the modern city was formed. It looks inside St. Paul's Cathedral, under Wren's great dome, and into Westminster Abbey, where the author spent many midnight hours on fire-fighting duty during World War II and came to know the monuments lining the walls as well as he knew the furniture in his own living room. It offers a privileged peek inside Buckingham Palace as well as a leisurely stroll through John Nash's Regent's Park. It lives through great days in the House of Commons, eavesdrops at Lady Holland's soirees, and applauds a new Pinter play. Selected by the author, a gallery of the city's finest recorders illustrates the text, from Canaletto and Zoffany to Rowlandson and Hogarth. Here are Gainsborough and Reynolds, Turner and Monet, Walter Sickert and Lucian Freud, John Thomson and Bill Brandt. Nearly two hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors, architectural renderings, photographs, cartoons, and more serve as visual foils to Mr. Russell's verbal recollections.".
- catalog contributor b6989179.
- catalog coverage "London (England) Description and travel.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Getting acquainted -- In the House of Commons -- The spirit if place -- The Thames, back then and right now -- Westminster Abbey -- The continuing city -- After the great fire -- Putting it all together -- The perpetual president -- Buckingham Palace -- The other park : Regent's Park -- The center if the world -- There's always the theater -- The great outdoors.".
- catalog description "It lives through great days in the House of Commons, eavesdrops at Lady Holland's soirees, and applauds a new Pinter play.".
- catalog description "John Russell's memoir of London goes back to before the great fire of 1666, when the modern city was formed. It looks inside St. Paul's Cathedral, under Wren's great dome, and into Westminster Abbey, where the author spent many midnight hours on fire-fighting duty during World War II and came to know the monuments lining the walls as well as he knew the furniture in his own living room. It offers a privileged peek inside Buckingham Palace as well as a leisurely stroll through John Nash's Regent's Park.".
- catalog description "Selected by the author, a gallery of the city's finest recorders illustrates the text, from Canaletto and Zoffany to Rowlandson and Hogarth. Here are Gainsborough and Reynolds, Turner and Monet, Walter Sickert and Lucian Freud, John Thomson and Bill Brandt. Nearly two hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors, architectural renderings, photographs, cartoons, and more serve as visual foils to Mr. Russell's verbal recollections.".
- catalog extent "256 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "London.".
- catalog identifier "0810935708".
- catalog isFormatOf "London.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : H.N. Abrams,".
- catalog relation "London.".
- catalog spatial "London (England) Description and travel.".
- catalog subject "942.1/2 20".
- catalog subject "DA684.25 .R87 1994".
- catalog subject "London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Getting acquainted -- In the House of Commons -- The spirit if place -- The Thames, back then and right now -- Westminster Abbey -- The continuing city -- After the great fire -- Putting it all together -- The perpetual president -- Buckingham Palace -- The other park : Regent's Park -- The center if the world -- There's always the theater -- The great outdoors.".
- catalog title "London / John Russell.".
- catalog type "text".