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Lectures on sculpture / by John Flaxman, as delivered by him before the president and members of the Royal Academy ; with a brief memoir of the author.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1829 Flaxman
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flaxman, John, 1755-1826.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sculpture.
- Anatomy, Artistic--Early works to 1800.
- Anatomy, Artistic.
- Greece--Antiquities.
- Greece.
- Egypt--Antiquities.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- [i-ix], xxvii, [1], [1], 243 [ie. 343], [1] p., [52] leaves of plates : ill. (lithographs) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Murray, Albemarle--Street, MDCCCXXIX [1829].
- Contents:
- English sculpture
- Egyptian sculpture
- Grecian sculpture
- Science
- Beauty
- Composition
- Style
- Drapery
- Ancient art
- Modern sculpture.
- Notes:
- Page 342 and 343 incorrectly numbered 242 and 243.
- "Printed by C. Roworth, Bell Yard, Temple Bar"--T.p. verso.
- Frontispiece lithographed by Richard Lane after a self-portrait medallion by Flaxman executed in Rome.
- Illustration: 52 full plates : lithographs, by various artists after Flaxman's drawings; printed by C. Hullmandel.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Library copy imperfect: plates 10, 18, 21 and 52 missing.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley.
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