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003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a O'Neil
245 1 0 $a Lectures On Painting Delivered At The Royal Academy By Henry O'Neil, A.R.A. With Additional Notes And Appendix.
260 # # $a London: $b Bradbury, Evans, & Co., 11, Bouverie St., E.C. $c 1866.
300 # # $a x, [ii], 140 p.; $c 198 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Preface - Contents - [Text] - Appendix; [colophon].
508 # # $a The printers' names appear on the t.p. verso and in the colophon: 'London: Bradbury, Evans, And Co., Printers, Whitefriars.'

The work is dedicated by Henry O'Neil to the President and the Members Of the Royal Academy of Arts.
510 0 # $a R. Treble, Great Victorian pictures [exhibition catalogue] (1978); C. Wood, Victorian panorama (1976).
520 2 # $a The work consists of the following lectures: I. On the character of nature in general, and on the mission of art; II. On portraiture, domestic and historical subjects, and on the causes and decline of art; III. On poetical and religious subjects; IV. General advice to students; and the Appendix, On the value of portraits to posterity. The caption-titles of each lecture state the date on which it was delivered: 1866 February 12; 1866 February 26; 1866 February 26; 1866 February 5 (perhaps the last date is a misprint, as the lecture opens with a reference to 'my previous Lectures'.

The author had been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1860, but held no posts in the Academy.
563 # # $a 19th-century green cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers with blind-stamped borders, upper cover with gilt-stamped decoration centre; spine lettered 'Lectures On Painting - H. O'Neil.'
610 2 4 $a Royal Academy of Arts (London)
653 # # $a Art - Painting - Portraits
655 # 0 $a Lectures - Great Britain - London - 19th century
710 2 # $a Royal Academy Of Arts (London) $e dedicatee
710 2 # $a Bradbury and Evans (London) $e publisher $e printer