Bibliograph

The vanishing Velázquez, a 19th-century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece, Laura Cumming

Type

Label

The vanishing Velázquez, a 19th-century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece, Laura Cumming

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The vanishing Velázquez

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

913303637

Responsibility statement

Laura Cumming

Sub title

a 19th-century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece

Table Of Contents

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

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