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A letter from the Chevalier Antonio Canova, and, two memoirs read to the Royal Institute of France on the sculptures in the collection of the Earl of Elgin

Archive Print Item: Leeds Phil. and Lit. Q/VIS

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Type of record: Book

Title: A letter from the Chevalier Antonio Canova, and, two memoirs read to the Royal Institute of France on the sculptures in the collection of the Earl of Elgin

Other titles: Lettre inedite di Antonio Canova; Lettre du chev. Antonio Canova; et deux memoires du sculpture... English

Level: Item

Classmark: Leeds Phil. and Lit. Q/VIS

Creator(s): Canova, Antonio (1757-1822)

Additional creator(s): Visconti, Ennio Quirino (1751-1818) (Other)

Related people: Visconti, Ennio Quirino

Publisher: Printed for John Murray, by W. Bulmer and Co

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1816

Language: English

Size and medium: xxii, 1 l., 221 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/246087

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015073339705181

Collection group(s): Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society

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The letter was translated into French by Visconti, who wrote the two memoirs.

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