Criticisms on art, and sketches of the picture galleries of England : with catalogues of the principal galleries, now first collected / by William Hazlitt. Edited by his son.

William Hazlitt

RA Collection: Book

Record number

21/296

Author

Imprint

London: C. Templeman, 6 Great Portland Street, MDCCCXLIV

Physical Description

x, 384, [70] p. ; 17.4 cm. (hbk).

Contents

On the pleasure of painting -- On certain inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds's discourses -- On originality -- On the catalogue raisonné of the British Institution -- On a portrait of an English lady, by Van Dyck -- The Vatican -- On a landscape by Nicolas Poussin -- English students at Rome -- On Lady Morgan's life of Salvator Rosa -- On Farington's life of Sir Joshua Reynolds -- On the ideal -- On judging of pictures -- Mr West's picture of Death on the Pale Horse -- On Williams's views in Greece; Appendix: Catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge -- Catalogue of the pictures at Stafford House -- Catalogue of pictures at Lansdowne House, and at Bowwod, Wilts -- Catalogue of the principal pictures in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton -- Catalogue of the collection of Lord Francis Egerton, the Bridgewater Gallery -- Catalogue of the principal pictures at Knole, in Kent -- Catalogue of the principal pictures at Apsley House -- Catalogue of the collection of pictures the property of Sir Robert Peel, at Whitehall -- Catalogue of the collection of pictures belonging to Samuel Rogers, Esq., St James's Palace, London -- Catalogue of the principal pictures in the Soane Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields

Provenance

Ex Harris Free Public Reference Library, Preston

Copy Note

Publisher's green pebble-grain cloth, blind-stamped covers, gilt-lettered spine, 'Criticisms / On Art / - / Second Series.' and 'W. Hazlitt'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Art Criticism - [19th Century - United Kingdom]
Collections - [19th Century - United Kingdom]

Contributors