The perfect painter, or, a compleat history of the original, progress and improvement of painting ...
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English
- Published
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London : [s.n.], Printed in the year 1730.
- Note
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P. 45-48 misnumbered 46, 45, 48, 47
Frontispiece engraved by Henry Hulsbergh.
Records for other copies report [4] or [6] additional pages.
Signatures: [A]² B-M⁶ N²(+N3).
"As this essay is an introduction to the history of painting to the time of Cimabue, I shall beg leave to prefix a chronological account of the painters since that time, as taken by the ingenious Mr. [Jonathan] Richardson, at the end of his Essay of the theory of painting. Printed anno 1715"--P. 127. The list of painters occupies p. 127-138.
"Shewing, I. The antiquity, excellency and usefulness of that divine art, to those who are desirous of being acquainted with the true knowledge and secrets therein contained. II. Plain instructions to form a right judgment of the real value of good pictures, and how to distinguish originals from copies, III. A chronological account of the most celebrated painters, from their rise, to the present time."
By Henry Bell. A reissue of the 1728 edition, which was entitled 'A historical essay on the original of painting', with a new t.p. See ESTC.
- Physical Description
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[4], 138 p., [1] leaf of plates :
ill. ;
17 cm. (12mo in 6s)
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