Lectures on painting, delivered at The Royal Academy, by Henry Fuseli, P.P. ; with additional observations and notes
RA Collection: Book
Record number
04/3301
Author
Variant Title
Half-title: Lectures on painting
Edition
2nd Ed.
Imprint
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820
Physical Description
xviii, 257 p.: ill.; 30 cm.
General Note
Second copy lacking half-title page
The pages of the second copy have been cut down. It measures 28 cm.
Contents
Frontis, t.p. - Introduction - First lecture: Ancient Art - Second lecture: Art of the Moderns - Third lecture: Invention, Part I - Fourth lecture: Invention, Part II - Fifth lecture: Composition, Expression - Sixth lecture - Chiaroscuro - tail-piece vignette.
Responsibility Note
The frontispiece is a portrait of Fuseli engraved by R.W. Sievier after a miniature by Moses Haughton the younger. The title-page vignette is of ‘Silence’ engraved by John Burnet after Fuseli. The tail-piece [p. 257] `Fantasy portrait of Michelangelo before the Roman Coliseum’ re-engraved by Francis Engleheart for this second edition. (The version in the first edition (1801) was engraved by William Blake after Fuseli’s pen-and-ink preliminary sketch).
Name as Subject
Contributors
R.W. Sievier, engraver
Moses Haughton the younger, source artist
John Burnet, engraver
Francis Engleheart, engraver
Cadell and Davies (London), publisher
A. and R. Spottiswoode (London), printer
Moses Haughton the younger, source artist
John Burnet, engraver
Francis Engleheart, engraver
Cadell and Davies (London), publisher
A. and R. Spottiswoode (London), printer