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The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters : containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists, who have flourished in the art of painting, at Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, and other cities of Italy : in Holland, Flanders, England, Germany, or France, from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767 : including above five hundred years, and the number of artists amounting to near one thousand four hundred : extracted from the most authentic writers who have treated on the subject of painting, in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Low Dutch : to which are added, two catalogues, the one, a catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters, for the use of those who desire to obtain a critical knowledge of the different hands and manners of the different schools, the other, a catalogue of those painters, who imitated the works of the eminent masters so exactly, as to have their copies frequently mistaken for originals : the whole being digested in a more easy and instructive method, than hath hitherto appeared : and calculated for general entertainment and instruction, as well as for the particular use of the admirers and professors of the art of painting / by the Rev. M. Pilkington ...
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1798 Pilking
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painters--Dictionaries.
- Painters.
- Physical Description:
- [i-v], xii, 840, xxiii, [1] p. ; 30 cm.
- Edition:
- A new ed. / to which is added, a supplement containing anecdotes of the latest and most celebrated artists, including several by Lord Orford / also, remarks on the present state of the art of painting, by James Barry, Esq.
- Other Title:
- Binder's title: Dictionary of painters
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by W. and C. Spilsbury, Snow-Hill, for J. Walker, no. 44, and G.G. and J. Robinson, no. 25, Paternoster-Row, 1798.
- Notes:
- Binding: In full polished blind tooled calf with gilt borders on front and back board; spine with gilt ornaments, rules and title; with marbled endpaper.
- Errata: p. [xxiv].
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T135976
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