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BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROYAL COLLECTION STUDIES 2012 READING LIST There is a vast literature on the Royal Collection, the royal palaces and the British monarchy. The aim here is to provide references to the works which will be of most use both before and after the course. The first part contains some widely-available titles which should ideally be read in advance. The second, longer part is a guide for those who wish to pursue subjects in more depth afterwards. A lengthy bibliography can also be found in the exhibition catalogue Royal Treasures (2002/2008). Titles marked with aannnn asterisk* are current Royal Collection publications, distributed by Thames & Hudson and available from [email protected] or from the onon----sitesitesitesite shops. See also the Royal Collection website/shop for many of these titles www.royalcollection.org.uk and www.royalcollectionshop.co.uk ... PART ONE (Before the Course) General titles Lloyd, Christopher The Paintings in the Royal Collection , London, 1999 Millar, Oliver The Queen’s Pictures. The Story of The Royal Collection from Henry VIII to Elizabeth II , London, 1977 Plumb, J.H. Royal Heritage. The story of Britain’s Royal and Weldon, H. Builders and Collectors , London, BBC, 1977 The book which accompanied the BBC television series celebrating the Silver Jubilee, and still a useful tour d’horizon of the collection in its settings. Geoffrey de Bellaigue Carlton House: the past glories of George IV’s et al. palace , exh. cat. The Queen’s Gallery, London, 1991 A preliminary read through this authoritative work on Carlton House, perhaps in conjunction with the following title, will prove very helpful at several points in the course. *Roberts, Hugh For the King’s Pleasure. The furnishing and decoration of George IV’s Apartments at Windsor Castle , London, 2001 (Contains much information on the re-use of earlier furniture as well as the newly-commissioned pieces) *Roberts, Jane, ed. Treasures, The Royal Collection , London, 2008 NB This is a revised edition of Royal Treasures. A Golden Jubilee Celebration , exh.cat. The Queen’s Gallery, London, 2002 A catalogue of 450 of the finest paintings and works of art in the collection, with introductory essays on its history, display and care, as well as a very extensive bibliography and exhibition list. Distributed by Thames & Hudson, ISBN [UK] 1902163494; [USA] 050097615-5. Various authors Apollo , vol. CLV no. 486, August 2002 The whole issue was devoted to current research in many areas of the Collection. Palaces Dinkel, John The Royal Pavilion, Brighton , London, 1983 Impey, Edward, and The Tower of London , London, 2000 Parnell, Geoffrey Impey, Edward Kensington Palace , London, 2004 *Robinson, J.M. Buckingham Palace: The Official Illustrated History, London, 2000 *Robinson, J.M. Windsor Castle: The Official Illustrated History , London, 2000 Watkin, David The Royal Interiors of Regency England , London, 1984 (Reproduces many of the watercolours for Pyne’s Royal Residences ) Worsley, Lucy, and Hampton Court Palace. The Official Illustrated Souden, David History , London 2005 PART TWO (for reference after the Course) Palaces Bold, John Greenwich: An Architectural History of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and The Queen’s House , New Haven and London, 2000 Brindle, Steven, Windsor Revealed. New Light on the History of and Kerr, Brian the Castle , London, 1997 Colvin, H.M. (gen.ed.) The History of the King’s Works , vol. III 1485-1660 Part I, London, 1975; vol. IV 1485-1660 Part II, London, 1982; vol. V 1660-1782, London 1976; vol. VI 1782-1851, London, 1973 De Bellaigue, Geoffrey ‘Chinoiserie at Buckingham Palace’, Apollo ,,, May 1975, pp. 380-391 Harris, John, De Buckingham Palace , London, 1968 Bellaigue, Geoffrey, and Millar, Oliver Hope, W. St John Windsor Castle. An Architectural History , 2 vols., London, 1913 Longstaffe-Gowan, The Gardens and Parks of Hampton Court Palace , Todd London, 2005 Maxwell, Christopher ‘Chinoiserie at Buckingham Palace in the nineteenth century’. Burlington Magazine, June 2007 Morley, John The Making of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton London, 1984 Nicolson, Adam Restoration . The Rebuilding of Windsor Castle , London, 1997 (The reconstruction of the castle after the fire of 1992) Port, M.H., ed. The Houses of Parliament , New Haven and London, 1976 Riding, Christine, et al. The Houses of Parliament: History, Art, Architecture , London, 2000 Roberts, Henry D. The Royal Pavilion, Brighton , London, 1939 Roberts, Hugh ‘The gem of the Palace’, Queen Victoria’s Audience Room at Windsor Castle, Burlington Magazine , December 2009, pp. 824-829 Roberts, Jane Royal Landscape. The Gardens and Parks of Windsor , New Haven and London, 1997 Smith, H. Clifford Buckingham Palace, its Furniture, Decoration and History , London, 1931 Thurley, Simon The Royal Palaces of Tudor England , New Haven and London, 1993 Thurley, Simon Whitehall Palace. An Architectural History of the Royal Apartments, 1240-1690 , New Haven and London, 1999 Thurley, Simon Hampton Court. A Social and Architectural History, New Haven and London, 2003 Various authors Hampton Court Palace. The King’s State Apartments, Apollo , August 1994 Wilson, Christopher ‘The Royal Lodgings of Edward III at Windsor Castle: Form, Function, Representation’, in Windsor Castle, Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture of the Thames Valley , ed L.Keen and E.Scarff, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXV, 2002 Pictures (including miniatures) Campbell, Lorne The Early Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , Cambridge, 1985 Fermor, Sharon The Raphael Tapestry Cartoons , London, 1996 Heard, Kate and The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein , Whitaker, Lucy 2011 Levey, Michael The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , 2 nd edn., Cambridge, 1991 Lloyd, Christopher Gainsborough and Reynolds: Contrasts in Royal Patronage , exh. cat. The Queen's Gallery, 1994 Lloyd, Christopher, The Quest for Albion: Monarchy and the et al. Patronage of British Painting , exh. cat. The Queen’s Gallery, 1998 Lloyd, Christopher EnchEnchEnchantingEnch anting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden AgeAge , exh. cat. The Queen's Gallery (Edinburgh and London), 20042004----5555 Lloyd, Christopher, and Masterpieces in Little: Portrait Miniatures from Remington, Vanessa the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (etc.) 1997 Martindale, Andrew The Triumphs of Caesar by Mantegna in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Hampton Court , London, 1979 Millar, Oliver The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , Oxford, 1963 Millar, Oliver The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , Oxford, 1969 Millar, Oliver The Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , Cambridge, 1992 Remington, Vanessa Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , London 2010 *Reynolds, Graham The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , London 1999 *Scott, Jennifer The Royal Portrait, Image and Impact, London 2010 Shawe-Taylor, Desmond Bruegel to Rubens, Masters of Flemish Painting and Scott, Jennifer exh. cat., The Queen’s Gallery, London 2007 *Shawe-Taylor, Desmond The Conversation Piece, Scenes of Fashionable Life , exh. cat., The Queen’s Gallery, London, 2009 *Shawe-Taylor, Desmond Dutch Landscapes , exh. cat., The Queen’s and Scott, Jennifer Galleries, Edinburgh & London, 2010 Shawe-Taylor, Desmond ‘The Art of Music’, Apollo , March, 2011 Shearman, John Raphael’s Cartoons in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen and the tapestries for the Sistine Chapel , London, 1972 Shearman, John The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , Cambridge, 1983 Walker, Richard The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , Cambridge, 1992 White, Christopher The Dutch Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , Cambridge, 1982 *White, Christopher The Later Flemish Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London 2006 Whitaker, Lucy, and The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: Clayton, Martin Renaissance and Baroque (exh. cat. London 2007) Works of art on Paper Roberts, Jane Master Drawings in the Royal Collection from Leonardo da Vinci to the Present Day , exh. cat. The Queen’s Gallery, 1986 (A survey of the collection which also contains a list of catalogues raisonné) Clayton, Martin Holbein to Hockney: Drawings from the Royal Collection (Edinburgh, Wellington NZ and London 2004-6) Millar, Delia The Victorian Watercolours in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen , 2 vols., London, 1995 Among the more recent exhibition catalogues see especially: Joannides, Paul Michelangelo and his Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle (Washington, Fort Worth, Chicago, Cambridge and London, 1997) Clayton, Martin Leonardo da Vinci London 1996 Clayton, Martin Raphael and his Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle (London, Washington, Toronto and Los Angeles, 1999) Clayton, Martin Leonardo: the Divine and Grotesque (Edinburgh and London 2002-3) Clayton, Martin Canaletto in Venice (London and Edinburgh, 2006) Owens, Susan Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (Edinburgh and London, 2005-6) Roberts, Jane, Unfolding Pictures: fans in the Royal Collection Sutcliffe, Prudence (Edinburgh and London, 2005-6) and Mayor, Susan *Attenborough, David,
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