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Title The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th-century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece / Laura Cumming.
Author Cumming, Laura, author.
Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2016.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  759.6 CUM    Check Shelves
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description viii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
text rdacontent.
unmediated rdamedia.
volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index.
Summary Describes the true story of a provincial bookseller who discovered an incredible portrait of King Charles I at a liquidation auction and his lifelong quest to prove it was painted by Diego Velázquez.
Subject Snare, John -- Knowledge -- Art.
Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Reading.
Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660 -- Appreciation.
Portrait painting -- Attribution.
ISBN 1476762155 (hardcover) : $28.00
9781476762159 (hardcover)