Gone to earth
John Barrell, 30 March 1989
Sporting Art in 18th-Century England: A Social and Political History
by Stephen Deuchar.
Yale, 195 pp., £24.95, November 1988,0 300 04116 0 Show More
by Stephen Deuchar.
Yale, 195 pp., £24.95, November 1988,
“... and early 19th centuries is now both ubiquitous and invisible, so in a sense it always was. As Stephen Deuchar shows in his impressive account of 18th-century sporting art, we know very little about almost all the artists who produced it. The names of some are known to us only through their pictures; of others, we know their names but nothing by ... ”
