The Wallace Collection Children's Art Book

Emmajane Avery
Illustrations by Albany Wiseman and Robin Ollington

• $20.00s paperback (9780900785900) Add to Cart
• hardcover not available

• Published: April 2009
• Subject Listing: Art History, Children's Books
• Bibliographic information: 48 pp., 100 color illus., 9.5 x 12 in.
• Territorial rights: Rights in U.S. and Canada only
• Distributed for: Paul Holberton publishing
• Contents

The Wallace Collection is a national museum in a central London townhouse, featuring distinguished works of art such as The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals and The Swing by Fragonard. It was collected by five generations of one family, four successive Marquesses of Hertford and the 4th Marquess's son, Sir Richard Wallace.

The book introduces children aged seven to nine to paintings, furniture, ceramics, and arms and armour by some of the world's greatest makers. Readers also meet Sir Richard Wallace, who brings the objects that he once owned to life in lively illustrations.