The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th-century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476762159
- ISBN: 1476762155
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Physical Description:
print
viii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm - Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 as The vanishing man"--Title-page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-287) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A discovery -- The painting -- The painter -- Minster Street -- Man in black -- The talk of London -- A man in full -- The attack -- The theater of life -- Seizure and theft -- The trial -- The escape -- Velázquez on Broadway -- The escape artist -- The vanishing -- Seeing is believing -- The ghost of a picture -- An infinite number of Charleses -- Lost and found -- Saved. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Snare, John -- Knowledge -- Art Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Reading Velázquez, Diego -- 1599-1660 -- Appreciation Portrait painting -- Attribution |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 759.6 Cumm (Text) | 33294002091395 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |