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001 $ 04/3140
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20210920120439.9
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Strange
245 1 2 $a A Collection Of Historical Prints, Engraved From Pictures Of The Most Celebrated Painters, Of The Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, And Other Schools: With Descriptive Remarks On The Same; By Sir Robert Strange; Member of the Royal Academy of Painting at Paris; of the Academies of Rome, Florence, and Bologna; and Professor of the Royal Academy at Parma.
260 # # $a [London: $b $c 1792 or later.]
300 # # $a 19, [1] p., [50] pl. (incl. frontis. port.); $c 680 mm.
500 # # $a The fifty plates do not carry numbers; but are assigned numbers I-L in the 'Remarks On The Plates'.
505 0 # $a [Frontis. (= pl.1), t.p., dedic.] - Introduction - Remarks On The Pictures From Which The Following Engravings Are Taken - [Plates 2-50].
508 # # $a All plates are signed with the name of the source artist, and as engraved, or drawn and engraved, or etched and engraved, by Robert Strange.

The work is dedicated by Robert Strange to the King.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c N52559
510 3 # $a J. Dennistoun, Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange (2 v., 1855).
520 2 # $a No publication-date is carried by the title page; but Dennistoun states that it was advertised immediately after Sir Robert's death in 1792, and had been planned by him before that. Several plates carry dates - of 1753, 1755, 1759, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1774, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1781, 1787. (some of these carry both a date of engraving and an earlier date of etching.)

Plate [1] (frontispiece) is a portrait of the author by J.B. Greuze. Plates [2-50] show paintings by Wouvermans [pl. 2], Vanloo [3], Guido [4-7, 10, 18, 21, 22, 25, 32, 39, 46], Carlo Maratt [8, 9], Andrea Sacchi [11], Pietro Da Cortona [12, 13], Vandyke [14, 29, 43, 44, 49], Salvator Rosa [15, 36], Dominichino [16], Nicolas Poussin [17], Raphael [19, 20, 31, 47], Guercino [23, 24, 33, 37], Titian [26-28, 38], Correggio [30, 42], Parmigiano [34], Schidoni [35, 41], West [45], Carlo Dolci [48], Murillo [50]. As a specialist in 'Historical Prints' Strange has included few portraits. Those which he has included are of four paintings by Van Dyke of King Charles I and his family (pl. 14, 29, 43, 44), and Benjamin West's painting of the 'Apotheosis of the royal children' (of King George III), the print for which Strange was knighted in 1787. Most of his chosen paintings show Christian subjects or subjects from Greek mythology or Greek and Roman history.
562 # # $a Some smaller plates are remounted to match the size of the other sheets (pl. 2-4, 6-9, 34, 40, 42); while the largest plates (pl. 37, 38, 43-46) have been conserved separately (PC 1/6).
563 # # $a 19th-century half red morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Works Of Sir Robert Strange', 'R.A.' and 'London 1750-90'.
600 1 4 $a Guido
600 1 4 $a Strange
600 1 4 $a Van Dyck
653 # # $a Christian art and symbolism
653 # # $a Mythology, Greek
653 # # $a Celebrities - Heroes - Greece - Rome - History
653 # # $a Paintings - Italy - History
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Reni $e source artist
700 1 # $a van Dyck $e source artist
700 0 # $a George III $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Strange $e draughtsman $e engraver