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Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts : also, a catalogue of engravers who have been born or resided in England
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Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts : also, a catalogue of engravers who have been born or resided in England / collected by the late George Vertue ; digested and published from his original mss. by Horace Walpole ; with additions by the Rev. James Dallaway ; ... in three volumes.
Edition
A new edition, revised, with additional notes by Ralph N. Wornum.
Published
London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1849.
Physical Description
3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 bound in blind-stamped brown publisher's cloth. Copy 2 bound in half calf with marbled boards.
Notes
Spine title: Walpole's anecdotes of painting.
Engravings by H.W. Bond, William Bromley, Henry R. Cook, John William Cook, Robert Cooper, George Thomas Doo, Samuel Freeman, B.P. Gibbon, W. Raddon, H. Robinson, John Henry Robinson, Edward Scriven, William Skelton, James Thomson, Paton Thomson, A. W. Warren, William Henry Watt, and William Henry Worthington; after William Aikman, Henry Bone, William Hogarth, Hans Hysing, J. H. Jackson, Godfrey Kneller, Peter Lely, Jan Lievens, Edward Pretty, P. Stubley, John Thurston, Anthony Van Dyck, John Vanderbank, and Antonio Verrio.
Printed by R. Clay, Bread Street Hill, London.
Artist portraits include engraved plates and wood-engraved illustrations within the text.
Vol. 3 includes: On modern gardening, supplementary anecdotes of gardening in England, by Mr. Dallaway.
Variant and related titles
Walpole's anecdotes of painting.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/Form
Wood engravings - 1819.
Engravings - 1819.
Stipple engravings - 1819.
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