Author: Gerard C. Wertkin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 1135956154
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Author: Joan M. Marter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 3140
ISBN-13: 0195335791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Author: Janice Gayle Schimmelman
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An extensively cross-referenced bibliography of 183 treatises, instruction manuals and other books related to drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture, artist biography, art history, and aesthetics compiled from bookseller and library catalogues dating from 1719 through 1815 from the areas that during this period ceased being British colonies and became the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13:
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 1257
ISBN-13: 1474249841
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