The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th-century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476762180
- ISBN: 147676218X
- ISBN: 1476762155
- ISBN: 9781476762159
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Physical Description:
viii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2016, ©2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 as The vanishing man"--Title-page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-287) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A discovery -- The painting -- The painter -- Minister Street -- Man in black -- The talk of London -- A man in full -- The attack -- The theater of life -- Seizure and theft -- The trial -- The escape -- Velázquez on Broadway -- The escape artist -- The vanishing -- Seeing is believing -- The ghost of a picture -- An infinite number of Charleses -- Lost and found -- Saved. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Portrait painting Attribution Velázquez, Diego 1599-1660 Appreciation Booksellers and bookselling England Reading Snare, John Knowledge Art |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Wales Area. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Wales Area Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Wales Area Library | F Cumming (Text) | 35410000606632 | NWAL Fiction | Available | - |