Eye Witness: Artists and Visual Documentation in Britain 1770 - 1830

by Sam Smiles

This study examines the ways in which very different visual fields might be said to have shared certain working assumptions concerning the truth of representation. It concentrates particularly on prints.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Sam Smiles, Honorary Professor, University of Exeter, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Plymouth Centre for Romanticism, & Tate Britain curator