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Out of Print
The Face in
the Corner
Animal
Portraits from the Collections of the National Portrait Gallery
Robin Gibson
This affectionate study of
animal portraiture, illustrated throughout with images from the
National Portrait Gallery, charts the frequent presence in even
the grandest portraits of the sitter's silent companion - cats
and dogs and other pets recorded in over 450 years of paintings,
sketches, drawings and photographs. From the Elizabethan Sir
Henry Unton to the children of Charles I, from the little terrier
that records Lady Caroline Lamb's first extra-marital affair
to Queen Victoria's favourite dogs, from the extraordinary images
of Anna Pavlova and her pet swan to Edith Sitwell and her favourite
cat, this books charts the English love-affair with the domestic
pet and the delightful and often surprising ways in which their
likenesses and life-stories have been handed down to us.
Author
Robin
Gibson was Chief Curator at the National Portrait Gallery 1993-2001.
He has written extensively on twentieth-century portraiture and
photography, and his previous books include Madame Yevonde,
The Sitwells, John Bratby Portraits, Glyn Philpot,
and Paolozzi Portraits.
210 x 147mm, 96 pages
70 illustrations, 50 in colour
ISBN 1 85514 230 9
£7.50 (paperback)
Special offer price: £5
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