Rhymes On Art; Or, The Remonstrance Of A Painter: In Two Parts. With Notes, And A Preface, Including Strictures On The State Of The Arts, Criticism, Patronage, And Public Taste. By Martin Archer Shee, Esq. R.A. Third Edition.
London:: Printed For William Miller, Albemarle-Street., 1809.
Physical Description
[ii], lxiii, [3], 124 p.; 77 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[T.p.] - Contents - Preface - Preface To The Second Edition - [Text]; [colophon] - [Publisher's advertisement].
Responsibility Note
The printer is named on the title-page verso and colophon: 'C. Whittingham, Printer, Dean Street.'
Summary Note
The Rhymes, in which Shee argues for national patronage of artists, were first published in 1805, and were well received. The book went through a second edition the same year; and influenced the founding of the British Institution in 1807.
The work was continued by Shee's Elements Of Art (1809).
Provenance
Purchased in 1913.
Binding Note
19th-century quarter blue cloth, pale blue papered boards; white paper spine-label lettered 'Shee's Rhymes. Third Ed. 7s.'
Subject
Art - Arts - Aesthetics - Painting
Art - Arts - Patronage - Great Britain - History - 19th century
English poetry - Didactic poetry - Art criticism - Great Britain - 19th century