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Search - Life And Work Of The People Of England - A Pictorial Record From Contemporary Sources - The Seventeenth Century

Life And Work Of The People Of England A Pictorial Record From Contemporary Sources The Seventeenth Century
Author: Dorothy Hartley

UrE AND Vi TIRX Or i PEOPLE OF ENG A PICTORIAL RECORD FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES Seventeenth Century BY DOROTHY HARTLEY - 51rt teacher, he Polytechnic Institute, London L MARGARET M. ELLIOT ond. 5t-t loysius Secondary School, London ith 166 Illustrations f G. P. PUTNAMS SONS NEW YORK LONDON 1929 Copyright, 1929 by Dorothy Hartley and Margaret M. ... more »Elliot REBUILDING THE BURNT NAVE OF A CHURCH 1681, SHOWING SCAFFOLDING AND WINDLASSES. J. A. Graffan del. Print Room, Dresden. PREFACE HPHE object of this series is to give a view of the Social life of each century through the eyes of the people who lived in it. We have tried to select records suitable for general and school use, which has meant examining some thousands of MSS., prints, drawings and reference books, and only by careful selection and examination could the results be condensed into an inexpensive series. A general introduction outlines the characteristics of the century, and a series of notes gives points of detail. The eighty-five plates comprise 166 pictures covering the main departments of human life. From opinions received we think that beyond doubt the illustrations of Social History from the contemporary graphic art of the period treated has been of great value and interest to a number of persons but we do not think that teachers as a whole are unanimously sympathetic with these contemporary representations. We cannot help feeling that the contemporary pictures represent the life of a period in a manner unsurpassed for vivid inter pretation, graphic power, and wealth of detail. The subjects also have in most cases greater artistic vigour and value than any modern transcripts, and we feel that Copyright, 1929 by Dorothy Hartley and Margaret M. Elliot PREFACE r PHE object of this series is to give a view of the Social life of each century through the eyes of the people who lived in it. We have tried to select records suitable for general and school use, which has meant examining some thousands of MSS., prints, drawings and reference books, and only by careful selection and examination could the results be condensed into an inexpensive series. A general introduction outlines the characteristics of the century, and a series of notes gives points of detail. The eighty-five plates comprise 166 pictures covering the main departments of human life. From opinions received we think that beyond doubt the illustrations of Social History from the contemporary graphic art of the period treated has been of great value and interest to a number of persons but we do not think that teachers as a whole are unanimously sympathetic with these contemporary representations. We cannot help feeling that the contemporary pictures represent the life of a period in a manner unsurpassed for vivid inter pretation, graphic power, and wealth of detail. The subjects also have in most cases greater artistic vigour and value than any modern transcripts, and we feel that iv Preface teachers should accustom themselves to study, enjoy and make use of them. Drawings of a later century, though inferior for Social life, can depict, if carried out by good artists, the archi tecture and interior decoration of an historic period with accuracy and feeling hence we have included two of Joseph Nashs water-colours of Interiors. The advisability for teachers to become decidedly more intimately acquainted with the periods which they teach has been emphasised by a recent trenchant report of an Inspector of History Teaching which received some publicity in the Press at the time. We do not necessarily point to our own series as the remedy we would rather simply asseverate that these are the lines upon which we have been working for some years, and that this nearer and more intimate knowledge of the background to historical events is what we have sought to stimulate. This volume is exactly parallel to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centimes already published...

ISBN-13: 9781406730487
ISBN-10: 1406730483
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Meredith Press
Book Type: Paperback
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