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041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Phillips
245 1 0 $a Lectures On The History And Principles Of Painting. By Thomas Phillips, Esq. R.A. F.R.S. & F.S.A. Late Professor Of Painting In The Royal Academy. - [Epigraph] -
260 # # $a London: $b Printed For Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row. $c 1833.
300 # # $a xxxii, 477, [1] p.: $c [1] illus.; $c 211 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Preface - Errata - Contents - [Text] - [Colophon].
508 # # $a The printer is named on the half-title verso and in the colophon: 'London: Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.'

The work is dedicated by Thomas Phillips to George O'Brien, Earl of Egremont.
510 0 # $a C. Miller, Thomas Phillips RA FRS FSA 1770-1845: portrait painter [dissertation, Univy. London, Courtauld Inst.] (1977); S.C. Hutchison, 'The Royal Academy schools, 1768-1830', in Walpole Society, 38 (1960-2), p.123-91, esp. p.152-3.
520 2 # $a The text consists of ten lectures by the portrait-painter, Thomas Phillips, who had been Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy from 1825 to 1832. The lectures are listed in the Contents as on: I-IV. (1827) History of Painting; V. (1828) Invention; VI. (1828) Design; VII. (1829) Composition; VIII. (1829) Colouring; IX. (1829) Chiaro-Oscuro; X. (1832) Application of the Principles of Painting.

The in-text illustration on p.341 reproduces the color-wheel from Moses Harris's The Natural System of Colours, but is not printed in color.
533 # # $n A microfiche version was published in 1990 (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey).
561 # # $a The half-title is inscribed in ink, 'To The President & Council of the Royal Academy from the Author.'
562 # # $a A preliminary leaf is stamped, 'Co-Operative Bookbinder's: London'.
563 # # $a 19th- or eary-20th- century black morocco, grey cloth-covered boards; gilt-decorated spine, lettered 'Lectures On Painting Phillips' and 'R.A.'
600 1 4 $a Harris, Moses $c Natural System of Colours
610 2 4 $a Royal Academy of Arts (London)
653 # # $a Art - Painting - Theory - History
655 # 0 $a Lectures - Speeches - Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Spottiswoode $e printer
700 1 # $a Egremont $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Phillips, Thomas $e previous owner $e donor
710 2 # $a Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman $e publisher
710 2 # $a Royal Academy of Arts (London). Professor of Painting
710 2 # $a Co-operative Bookbinder's $e binder