"Accompanies the exhibition Sensation and sensibility: viewing Gainsborough's cottage door, co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens ... at the YCBA from 6 October to 31 December 2005 and at the Huntington from 11 February to 14 May 2006"--T.p. verso.
Gainsborough's cottage door: sensation and sensibility / Ann Bermingham
1: Cottages and The cottage door's cultural significance
"Innocence and health": nursing women in Gainsborough's cottage-door paintings / Susan Sloman
Spectacles for republicans / John Barrell
2: Gainsborough and the theme of the "cottage door"
Gainsborough's cottage doors: a matter of modernity / Michael Rosenthal
Gainsborough's cottage-door scenes: aesthetic principles, moral values / Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson
3: Collectors and The cottage door
The early collectors of The cottage door / Dongho Chun
Gainsborough's Cottage door in Sir John Leicester's 'tent room' / Ann Bermingham
4: Gainsborough and de Loutherbourg: sensation and the landscape of special effects
Magic in the studio / William Vaughan
Magic, spectacle and the art of de Loutherbourg's Eidophusikon / Iain McCalman.
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Sensation & sensibility : viewing Gainsborough's cottage door. ISBN 0300110022. Published by Yale University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
