An authentic history of the professors of painting, sculpture, & architecture, who have practised in Ireland : involving original letters from Sir Joshua Reynolds, which prove him to have been illiterate : to which are added, memoirs of the Royal Academicians, being an attempt to improve the taste of the realm / by Anthony Pasquin ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.

Contributor:

Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818

Morris, Michael., Former owner.

Symonds, H. D., Publisher.

M'Queen, P., Publisher.

Bellamy, T., Publisher.

Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, Engraver.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.

Reynolds, Joshua.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain).

Artists--Ireland--Early works to 1800.

Artists.

Artists--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Art--Ireland--History--Early works to 1800.

Art.

Genre:

Armorial bookplates (Provenance)

Physical Description:

64 : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row; P. M'Queen, opposite exeter-change, Strand; and T. Bellamy, King-Street, Covent-Garden, [1796]

Notes:

"Addenda; or, Sir Joshua Reynolds developed"--P. 60-64. Includes three letters from Reynolds to "Miss Weston," dated "O.S. December 10th, 1749 to Apr. 30, 1751", and commentary.

Errata: p. [4]

Frontispiece of Anthony Pasquin engraved by F. Bartolozzi.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Binding: Quarter bound in designed brown leather; spine with raised bands; with marbled endpapers.

Athenaeum copy: Armorial bookplate of Michael Morris on front pastedown.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley.

Cited in:

ESTC T022772.

Related Work:

Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818 Liberal critique on the present exhibition of the Royal Academy.

Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818 Critical guide to the exhibition of the Royal Academy for 1796.

Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818 Critical guide to the present exhibition at Royal Academy for 1797.

Bound With:

Athenaeum copy: With: A liberal critique on the present exhibition of the Royal Academy : being an attempt to correct the national taste, to ascertain the state of the polite arts at this period, and to rescue merit from oppression / by Anthony Pasquin. London : Printed for J.D. Symonds and J. Mc Queen, 1794 -- A critical guide to the exhibition of the Royal Academy for 1796 : in which all the works of merit are examined, the portraits correctly named, and the places of the various landscapes : being an attempt to ascertain truth, and improve the taste of the realm / by Anthony Pasquin. London : Printed for H.D. Symonds, [1796] -- A critical guide to the present exhibition at Royal Academy for 1797 : containing admonitions to the artists on their misconception of theological subjects, and a complete development ... / by John Williams. London : Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1797.