'Slavery and the sublime. The Atlantic trade, landscape aesthetics and tourism' in M Dresser & A Hann (eds), Slavery and the British Country House

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Author(s) Perry, Victoria
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2013
Pages pp102-112
Publisher English Heritage
Place Published Swindon

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Name Cultural assets collection & patronage

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Focuses on the patronage of an absentee Antiguan planter [Valentine Morris of Persfield House, now Piercefield] on his country estate on the borders of South Wales and its role in establishing 'scenic' landscape tourism as a fashionable cultural activity in 18th century Britain