A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Most Celebrated Artists, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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A very handsome first edition of this traveler's guide to the art of Europe: "though this work is presented to the Public in the compact and portable size of a pocket volume, yet it will be found to contain a greater variety of matter, and more useful information, than is to be met with in the voluminous works of any writer on the subject." With a four-part appendix devoted to artists of the English School, with content drawn from Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England, itself based on the eighteenth-century work of George Vertue. A near-fine copy.
A very handsome first edition of this traveler's guide to the art of Europe: "though this work is presented to the Public in the compact and portable size of a pocket volume, yet it will be found to contain a greater variety of matter, and more useful information, than is to be met with in the voluminous works of any writer on the subject." With a four-part appendix devoted to artists of the English School, with content drawn from Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England, itself based on the eighteenth-century work of George Vertue. A near-fine copy.