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125 Treasures from the Collections of the National Trust (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 2 500
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125 Treasures from the Collections of the National Trust (Hardcover)
Series: The National Trust Collection
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Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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Presented in a beautiful gift format and filled with a wealth of
new photography, this engaging book aims to introduce to a general
audience the National Trust's vast collections - a treasure chest
of history. Arranged chronologically, starting with Roman sculpture
and ending with 20th-century design, it focuses on museum-quality
objects as well as important examples of decorative arts,
furniture, textiles, books and items with fascinating stories
behind them. Selected by the National Trust's curators from more
than 1.5 million objects in its collections, the featured
highlights include an ancient-Egyptian obelisk; Cardinal Wolsey's
purse; the first English globe; one of the earliest surviving
sofas; an incredible 18th-century dolls' house; an elephant
automaton; a tent made for a sultan; a dress made of beetle-wing
cases; hand-written manuscripts by Beatrix Potter and Virginia
Woolf; Rodin's bust of George Bernard Shaw; rare, early colour
photographs of the Sutton Hoo discovery; a sculpture by Barbara
Hepworth and paintings by Holbein, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt,
Velazquez, Reynolds, Stubbs, Burne-Jones, Monet and Sargent. Each
featured object is accompanied by an illuminating, easy-to-read
caption, a timeline of key moments in the Trust's history and a
list of properties housing important collections items appear at
the end.
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