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Total number of records: 390

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Bazin, Germain13
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Caraffe, Armand Charles10
Caraffe, Armand Charles (1762-1822)10
Filhol, Antoine Michel10
Filhol, Antoine Michel (1759-1812)10
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Lavallee, Joseph (1747-1816)10
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Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy, March 1801

Fuseli, Henry (1741-1825)

1801

Includes bibliographical references.

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Thirty years of British art

Duveen, Joseph Duveen Baron (1869-1939)

1930

"Studio" special autumn number 1930.

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The Dutch school of painting

Havard, Henry (1838-1921)

1885

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Some modern artists and their work

Meynell, Wilfrid (1852-1948)

1883

"The text and illustrations in this work originally appeared in the Magazine of art."

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The works of Jonathan Richardson : containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essay on the art of criticism, (so far as it relates to painting). III. The science of a connoisseur

Richardson, Jonathan (1665-1745)

1792

According to Hazen: A biliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, the above was illicitly printed by Thomas Kirkgate, Walpole's Strawberry Hill printer, after the latter's death, probably in 1797; it ex...

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Stories of the Spanish artists until Goya

Stirling Maxwell, Sir William (1818-1878); Carreño, Luis; Hutton, Edward (1875-1969)

1910

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The outcry

James, Henry (1843-1916)

1911

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The art of painting

Du Fresnoy, Charles Alphonse (1611-1668); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Jarvis, Charles (1675?-1739); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Graham, Richard (fl. 1680-1720); Lintot, Bernard

1716

Parallel texts of du Fresnoy's Latin poem, 'De arte graphica', and Dryden's prose translation, modified by Charles Jervas. 'To Mr. Jervas, with Frensoy's [sic] Art of painting', in verse, is by Alex...

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De arte graphica = The art of painting

Du Fresnoy, Charles-Alphonse (1611-1668); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Graham, Richard (fl. 1680-1720)

1695

Signatures: a-h⁴, B-Z⁴, 2A-2Y⁴, 2Z, [pi], a-h⁴, B-Z⁴, 2A-2Y⁴, 2Z. Added engraved t.p. Includes the original poem in Latin, with title: De arte graphica liber. Rendered into English f...

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Epigrams upon the paintings of the most eminent masters, antient and modern : with reflexions upon the several schools of painting

Elsum, John (fl. 1700-1705)

1700

Attributed to John Elsum. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.). Includes index.

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