Thomas Hope (designer)
Thomas Hope (30 August 1769 – 2 February 1831) was a Dutch-British interior and Regency designer, traveler, author, philosopher, art collector, and partner in the banking firm Hope & Co. He is best known as an early promoter of Greek Revival architecture, opening his house as a museum and his novel Anastasius, a work which many experts considered a rival to the writings of Lord Byron.
Born in Amsterdam, he fled to London after the French Revolution spread to the Netherlands, leaving a large part of his art collection behind.
1807: Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. Faksimile-Neuausgabe 1937.
1809: Costumes of the Ancients.
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1812: Designs of Modern Costumes.
1819: Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Modern Greek. (Roman)
1831: Origin and Prospect of Man.
1835: Historical Essay on Architecture.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hope, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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The Beechey Portrait – A Visual Study of "Anastasius" by John Rodenbeck
Thomas Hope – Triumph, Tragedy, Obverse Worlds by Jerry Nolan
A Political Study of Anastasius by Ludmilla Kostova
Hope's Philosophical Excursus by Roger Scruton
Anastasius – Towards Background and Meaning by John Rodenbeck
Sándor Baumgarten – Hope's Forgotten Champion by Jerry Nolan
Catalogue of the valuable library of books on architecture, costume, sculpture, antiquities, etc., formed by Thomas Hope, Esq., author of "The costume of the ancients," "Anastasius, or memoirs of a Greek," etc., etc. ; being a portion of the Hope Heirlooms removed from Deepdene, Dorking ; the property of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope : which will be sold by auction ... on Wednesday, 25 July 1917 and two following days.
Bagnall, Alexander (2019). The Deepdene: a landscape rediscovered. Dorking: Cockerel Press. 9781909871175.
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Ingram, T. L. (1980). "A note on Thomas Hope of Deepdene". Burlington Magazine. 927: 427–28.
Orbell, John (2008) [2004]. "Hope, Thomas (1769–1831)". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13737. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Watkin, David (1968). Thomas Hope 1769–1831 and the Neo-Classical Idea. London: John Murray. 9780719518195.
ISBN
Watkin, David; Hewat-Jaboor, Philip, eds. (2008). Thomas Hope: Regency designer. New Haven: Yale University Press. 9780300124163.