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Delle arti del disegno : discorsi del cav. Giosuè Reynolds, presidente della R. accad. di Londra ec

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Type of record: Book

Title: Delle arti del disegno : discorsi del cav. Giosuè Reynolds, presidente della R. accad. di Londra ec

Other titles: Discourses

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC For C17/18/REY

Creator(s): Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792)

Additional creator(s): Siries, Luigi (Other); Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio (1719-1789) (Other)

Related people: Siries, Luigi; Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio

Publisher: [s.n.]

Publication city: Bassano

Date(s): 1787

Language: Italian

Size and medium: 243 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/297300

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003691299705181

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Printed by Giuseppe Remondini, Venezia.


License to publish in Padua and Venice, dated February 8 1786, at end.


Second ed., edited by Luigi Siries.


Baretti's response to the publication of the 1st ed. (Firenze, 1778) can be found in his privately printed pamphlet "Lettera scritta da Giuseppe Baretti a Luigi Siries a Firenze," in which he criticizes Siries for not mentioning Baretti's name in the publication and for altering the text.--cf. Hilles, F.W. Literary career of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1936 ed.), pp. 51-59.


Portrait of Reynolds by Amadio Gabrieli; after Franco Corsi.


Head- and tail-pieces.


Horizontal chain-lines.

Additional description

Bound with 2 other publications. Volume contents: 1. Reynolds, J.: Delle arti del disegno, 1787. -- 2. Algarotti, F.: Saggio del Conte Algarotti sull'architettura e sulla pittura, [176-?]. -- 3. Milizia, F.: Dell'arte di vedere nelle belle arti del disegno, 1798. Ms. music (2 layers) inside spine

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