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001 $ 05/3275
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220905153638.7
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a lamotte
245 1 3 $a An Essay Upon Poetry and Painting, With Relation to the Sacred and Profane History. With An Appendix Concerning Obscenity in Writing and Painting. By Charles Lamotte, D.D. F.R.S. Member of the Society of Antiquaries, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Montague.
260 # # $a London: $b Printed for F. Fayram, at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange; and J. Leake, Bookseller at Bath. $c M.DCC.XXX. $c [1730]
300 # # $a [2], 202 p.; $c 163 mm. (Duodecimo.)
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - [Text:]An Essay Upon Poetry and Painting [in three Letters]; An Appendix ...
508 # # $a The headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials are unsigned.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T142577
520 2 # $a The Essay takes the form of three Letters. In the second the author writes about depictions of the death of Abel, Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, Job, Susanna, the nativity of Christ, the wise men at Bethlehem, the baptism of Christ and the Holy Ghost as a dove, the Last Supper, St. John, Christ with the doctors, the lame man cured by Peter and John, the Resurrection, the Last Judgement. In the third he writes of depictions of Bucephalus, Hector, Cleopatra, Ganymede, Aesop.
533 # # $n An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm copy was published in 1986 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).
561 # # $a A front endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr. Aug. Callcott.'
563 # # $a 19th-century quarter red morocco, green cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Lamotte's Poetry And Painting.' and 'R.A.'
630 0 0 $a Bible
653 # # $a Poetry - Painting - History Painting - Bible stories - Mythology, Greek - Obscenity
655 # 0 $a Essays - Theory - Art criticism - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Fayram $e publisher $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Leake $e bookseller
700 1 # $a Callcott $e previous owner $e donor