Art and the British empire / edited by Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham.
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Manchester [UK] and New York :
Manchester University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The expanded field of the picturesque : contested identities and empire in Sydney-Cove 1794 / Ian McLean
- 2. The picturesque and the Palawa : John Glover's Mount Wellington, and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point / David Hansen
- 3. John Septimus Roc and the art of navigation, c. 1815-30 / Luciana Martins and Felix Driver
- 4. Colonial illusions : Australasian trompe l'aeil drawings / Roger Blackley
- 5. Ideas of 'home' in South African landscape : paintings by Thomas Bowler and Thomas Baines / Michael Godby
- 6. Scalping : social rites in Westminster Abbey / Douglas Fordham
- 7. 'Conquest, usurpation, wealth, luxury, famine' : Mortimer's banditti and the anxieties of empire / David H. Solkin
- 8. Ships of the 'line' : marine paintings at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784 / Eleanor Hughes
- 9. Uranian imperialism : boys and empire in Edwardian England / Michael Halt
- 10. Homo-exoticism : John Minton in London and Jamaica, 1950-51 / Simon Faulkner
- 11. Critical cosmopolitanism : gifting and collecting art at Lucknow, 1775-97 / Natasha Eaton
- 12. Storm in a teacup? : visualising tea consumption in the British Empire / Romita Ray
- 13. The politics of portraiture behind the veil / Mary Roberts
- 14. A veil of truth and the details of empire : John Frederick Lewis's The Reception of 1873 / Emily M. Weeks
- 15. Imperial masculinity, mimicry and the new woman in Rhodes of Africa / Julie F. Codell
- 16. Savage marks : engraving and empire in Thomas Harriot's Briefe and True Report / Michael Gaudio
- 17. Always there : aboriginal people and the consolation of miniature portraiture in British North America / Kristina Huneault
- 18. Fractured families : John Davis's photo-portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson and 'family' in Samoa / Leonard Bell
- 19. Gentlemen at leisure : riding breeches in the photographic portrait images of black South African men / Sandra Klopper
- 20. 'A paralysis of perspective' : image and text in the creation of an African chief / Jeff Guy.