A fine clean copy of Apollo ~ Vol. CXLIII ~ No. 409, published in March 1996 and devoted to Oriental Art. Contents include scholarly articles on "The Gowland Collection in the British Museum : Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Japan", by Victor Harris ~ "A Landscape by Fu Baoshi Traditional Painting in Modern China", by Shelagh Vainker ~ "The "Jing-Lar" and Republican Politics : Drinking, Dining and Japonisme", by Bernard Bumpus ~ "Acquisition in Focus : A Japanese No Robe at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery", by Ann Yonemura ~ "A Delacroix Pastel in Russia : An Arab Resting in the Open Air", by Lee Johnson ~ "Van Gogh's First Sale : A Self Portrait in London", by Martin Bailey ~ "The O'Connell Monument in Dublin : The Political and Artistic Context of a Public Sculpture", by Paula Murphy ~ "Robert Adam and Charles Townley : The Development of the Top-Lit Sculpture Gallery", by Ruth Guilding ~ "The So-called Paciano Master and the Franciscans in Perugia", by Dillian Gordon, and, "Edward Hutton", by David Platzer, plus regular monthly features. Soft covers.
