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Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem

The LRB Podcast

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The Art of the National Gallery

The number of auction houses and sale rooms absolutely boomed during the napoleonic wars. And art always follows the money, because it's where ultimately the demand for a national gallery becomes irresistible. As an interesting piece of horse armour in the collection of the society of antiquaries of scotland, which belonged to walter scott, but he didn't realize it was horse armour. So these objects that came into existencead from all sorts of directions. There were fakes. There was a mistake. There were mistakes. The process which was known as sophisticating, which was not exactly fraught. It was when you madean er, you know, if you wanted a gothic

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