Pots, Prints, Poems, Plants and Publishers in Roscoe's Liverpool.
At the beginning of the nineteenth-century William Roscoe (1753-1831) was Liverpool's cultural impresario, the city's leading art collector, and an internationally known biographer of Lorenzo de Medici and Pope Leo X. He had helped establish a succession of Liverpool's exhibiting societies and learn...
| Publicado en: | Questione Romantica Vol. 8; no. 1/2; pp. 107 - 123 |
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Liguori Editore srl
jan-dec2016
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