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The Canadian Portrait Gallery (Volume 3)

The Canadian Portrait Gallery (Volume 3)

John Charles Dent

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9789354595943
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A window into a nation’s memory, opening with a quiet intensity that lingers. The Canadian Portrait Gallery (Volume 3) gathers a unique historical portrait collection that speaks in faces, lines, and biographical echoes.This is not merely a book of images; it is a portrait gallery reference crafted for readers who relish the texture of nineteenth century Canada. Dent’s illustrated biographical sketches illuminate provincial towns and national aspirations alike, turning individual stories into a broader tapestry of Victorian Canada. For casual readers, the portraits offer welcome encounters with people and places long past; for collectors and scholars, the volume functions as a portable, richly contextualised study of a canadas historical illustrated faces, a distinctive series within a larger portraiture anthology.The work bears notable historical significance: it preserves early Canadian sensibilities, social hierarchies, and regional identities through carefully composed likenesses and biographical glimpses. Its value endures as a meticulously curated record of Canadian biographical portraits, with attention to an era when print and image converged to shape public memory.Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this edition is restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint, it is a collector’s item and a cultural treasure-a student study guide and reference that invites rereading, rethinking, and renewed appreciation of Canada’s historical illustrated faces.

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