TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aymonino,Adriano
ED  - Yale University Press,
TI  - Enlightened eclecticism: the grand design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland 
SN  - 9781913107178
U1  - 941.073 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
KW  - Northumberland, Hugh Percy,
KW  - Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy,
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - George III, 1760-1820
N1  - Distributed by Yale University Press--t.p. recto
N2  - "The central decades of the 18th century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period's most important campaigns of patronage and collecting was that of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland: Sir Hugh Smithson (1712-86) and Lady Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716-76). This book examines four houses they refurbished in eclectic architectural styles--Stanwick Hall, Northumberland House, Syon House, and Alnwick Castle - alongside the innumerable objects they collected, their funerary monuments, and their persistent engagement in Georgian London's public sphere. Over the years, their commissions embraced or pioneered styles as varied as Palladianism, rococo, neoclassicism, and Gothic revival. In every instance, minute details contributed to large-scale projects expressing the Northumberlands' various aesthetic and cultural allegiances. Their development sheds light on the eclectic taste of Georgian Britain, the emergence of neoclassicism, and the cultures of the Grand Tour and the Enlightenment."--
ER  -