Happy birthdays! : J.M.W. Turner and Prince George on Richmond Hill
Whittingham, Selby2025
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Charles Lamb once wrote 'Every man hath two birthdays'. The Prince Regent not only had two, but, as the people of Richmond will not need reminding, being well educated in Shakespeare and his play about King Richard II, the monarch has two bodies, or so the eminent Professor Kantorowicz pointed out in the last century. While that did not enable the ruler to be in two places at the same time except after death, perhaps one event could simultaneously celebrate two birthdays, that of the monarch and of his panegyrist, in this case Turner, as an American scholar of Impressionism has suggested. The impression is everything. Certainly there was a propensity to see double, as when Pitt the Younger and his friend Dundas thought they saw two Speakers of the House of Commons after time spent at the wrong bar.
Main title:
Happy birthdays! : J.M.W. Turner and Prince George on Richmond Hill / Selby Whittingham.
Author:
Whittingham, Selby, author
Imprint:
Albuquerque : Paul R. Secord Books, 2025.
Collation:
91 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9798298876049 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
759.2L 920
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
9078372
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Local Studies Library & Archive | Reference | L 920 TURNER | Not for loan (Set: 27 Nov 2025) |
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