Description
A companion volume to Tessa Murdoch (ed.): Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses (2006)
About the Author
Tessa Murdoch, FSA, is an independent scholar. After forty years as curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Museum of London she is working with the British Museum on a programme for Britain and Ireland to mark the bicentenary of Catholic Emancipation in 2029. Her work on Huguenot refugee art and culture, Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture, was published in 2021. Her engagement with inventories was inspired by researching the archives of the dukes of Montagu for Boughton House: The English Versailles (1992); and under her editorship Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses was published in 2006; Toby Barnard, FBA, is emeritus fellow in history at Hertford College, University of Oxford. A specialist in the political, social and cultural histories of Ireland and England, c. 1600-1800, his books include: Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770 (2004); and Guide to the Sources for the History of Material Culture in Ireland (2005).
Reviews
'A box of geeky delights, certainly, but also a fabulous (one might even say indispensable) source for the scholarly study of the Irish country house . . .'-- Adrian Tinniswood, The Critic; "[T]his collection is a cornucopia of information, and while its primary audience will be scholars and curators, there is plenty to be gleaned from the listings for anyone interested in historic interiors'.-- C. Ridgway, Journal of the History of Collections; 'This is a beautiful production - elegantly laid out, printed and bound into a neat volume, with a fine dust jacket . . . It covers a fascinating subject, which brings us back in time and throws much light on how people lived.'-- Peter Pearson, Irish Arts Review; '[A]cross the span of some 120 years and 18 inventories it is possible to see how the decoration and design of affluent Irish households changed.'-- Robert O'Byrne, Apollo; '[The book] will be an invaluable and rich source of information for scholars and I know I will be using it on a regular basis.'-- James Rothwell, National Curator, Decorative Arts, National Trust; 'Historic household inventories recording the contents of rooms are an essential documentary tool for understanding the use and appearance of houses in the distant past. For anyone with a serious interest in Irish Georgian houses, this collection is an essential work of reference.'-- Kate Green, Country Life; 'All in all this is a model production which will be of permanent use to students of Irish houses, and indeed of those throughout Great Britain'.--Simon Swynfen Jervis, Furniture History Society Newsletter
Book Information
ISBN 9781898565178
Author Tessa Murdoch
Format Hardback
Page Count 436
Imprint John Adamson
Publisher John Adamson Publishing Consultants