Looks at the role of trees in British landscape painting and orfers new insights into work by John Constable, Samuel Palmer, the Pre-Raphaelites etc. First study of this important them in British painting
Acknowledgements
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List of illustrations
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Foreword
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Beccy Speight
Introduction: Trees in Britain
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One The Tree in the Landscape and in the Imagination: 1760--1870
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Two The Tree in Patrician Culture: 1760--1800
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Three Woodland Anatomy: The Drawing of Trees
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Four `Idolatry with Some Excuse': Portraits of Remarkable Trees
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Five The Pleasures of the Woods
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Six Exotic Trees: A Taste of Paradise
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Seven John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Tree: 1840--1870
