Main entry:

Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915-2008.

Title & Author:

The shows of London / Richard D. Altick.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1978.

Description:

553 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From cabinets to museums, I: 1600-1750 -- From cabinets to museums, II: 1750-1800 -- Monster-mongers and other retailers of strange sights -- Waxwork and clockwork -- Exhibitions of mechanical ingenuity -- Water, fire, air, and a celestial bed -- The sights and resorts of eighteenth-century London -- Art on display -- The eidophusikon -- The panorama in Leicester Square -- A panorama in a pleasure dome -- The diorama -- Panoramas: topics of the times -- The theatrical art of the panorama -- Panoramas in motioin -- Scenes optical, mechanical, and spectral
Entr'acte: exhibitions and London life -- William Bullock and the Egyptian Hall -- Freaks in the age of improvement -- The noble savage reconsidered -- The ancient and the exotic -- LIfe and death in the animal kingdom -- Zoos and pleasure gardens -- The waxen and the fleshly -- More mechanical ingenuity -- The two faces of science -- Technology for the million -- Artifacts and models -- Fine art for the people -- Entr'acte: inside the exhibition business -- National monuments -- The fifties, I: new patterns of life and the decline of the Panorama -- The fifties, II: the old order changeth.

Summary:

History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.

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ISBN:

0674807316
9780674807310

Subject:

Trade shows England London History.
Salons professionnels Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Exhibition catalogs.
Trade shows.
Bildband
Ausstellung
Exhibitions England London History.
London (England) Exhibitions History.
Londres (Angl.) Expositions Histoire.
England London.
London
London (England) Social life and customs

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Geschichte 1600-1862.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 27984
Call No.: ID EXP T395.5.G7; ID:88-B13824
Status: Available