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Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London
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Product Description: The 60 extraordinary paintings that comprise The Royal Holloway Collection’s touring exhibit illustrate the Victorian belief in art as the ultimate civilizing influence. Art was seen as a teaching tool with visual beauty as its medium, and Thomas Holloway sought out only the best examples, regardless of cost, to enhance the women’s college he founded in 1879...read more
By Tim Barringer (contributor), Mary Cowling, Dianne Sachko MacLeod (contributor), Christiana Payne (contributor) and Andrew Wilton (contributor)
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9780711229273 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, November 30, 2008, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The 60 extraordinary paintings that comprise The Royal Holloway Collection’s touring exhibit illustrate the Victorian belief in art as the ultimate civilizing influence.
9780134429977, titled "Sybase Performance Tuning" | Prentice Hall, October 1, 1995, cover price $72.00 | also contains Sybase Performance Tuning

Victorian Figurative Painting Dom.life: Domestic Life And the Contemporary Social Scene
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Product Description: Provides a unique insight into the nature and true value of Victorian genre with reference to contmeporary sources throughout. Uncovers the real significance of the paintings discussed and what they meant to a contemporary public.
By Mary Cowling
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9781901092325 | Andreas Papadakis Pub, January 1, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Provides a unique insight into the nature and true value of Victorian genre with reference to contmeporary sources throughout.

Victorian Figurative Painting: The Pre-Raphaelites
By Mary Cowling
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9781901092301 | Andreas Papadakis Pub, August 1, 2003, cover price $45.00

Victorian Figurative Painting: Domestic Life and the Contemporary Social Scene
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Product Description: Provides a unique insight into the nature and true value of Victorian genre with reference to contmeporary sources throughout. Uncovers the real significance of the paintings discussed and what they meant to a contemporary public. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Mary Cowling
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9781901092295 | Andreas Papadakis Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Provides a unique insight into the nature and true value of Victorian genre with reference to contmeporary sources throughout.

The Artist As Anthropologist: The Representation of Type and Character in Victorian Art
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Product Description: In the Victorian era, both artists and the public had fixed ideas about physiognomy, which shows how certain features indicate specific mental and moral characteristics. Hence art promoted ideas about individuals, social and racial groups...read more
By Mary Cowling
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9780521354905 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $89.95 | also contains When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010 | About this edition: In the Victorian era, both artists and the public had fixed ideas about physiognomy, which shows how certain features indicate specific mental and moral characteristics.

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