Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original Mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole. The second edition. Multa renascentur quae jam cecidere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--England--History.

Painting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4v.,plates ) ports. ;

Other Title:

Anecdotes of painting in England

Place of Publication:

[Twickenham] : Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXV. [1765]-71 [1765-80]

Notes:

Dedication signed: Horace Walpole.

With an unpaginated appendix, and index, at the end of each vol.

Vol. 3 bears the imprint: "Strawberry-Hill: printed in the year 1765".

Vol. 4 bears the imprint: "Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1771"; it has no edition statement, but is numbered "Volume the Fourth and last"; the Advertisement to the reader is dated on p. x: October 1, 1780.

A continuation was issued as 'A catalogue of engravers'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Hazen. Strawberry Hill, 10

English Short Title Catalog, T63190.

OCLC:

642650543