Second Series. Contributions To The Literature Of The Fine Arts By Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, F.R.S., D.C.L., &c. Late President Of The Royal Academy, And Director Of The National Gallery. With A Memoir Compiled By Lady Eastlake.
The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'London: Bradbury, Evans, And Co., Printers, Whitefriars.'
References
Accounts of Eastlake may be found in A.M. Ernstrom, 'Equally lenders and borrowers in turn: the working and married lives of the Eastlakes', in Art history, 15 (1992), p.470-85; D. Robertson, Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian art world (1978).
Summary Note
The collection contains a Memoir of Sir Charles Eastlake, and three essays by Eastlake: How to observe; Difference between language and art; Discourse on differences between formative arts and descriptive poetry.
Provenance
A preliminary leaf is inscribed in ink, 'Presented to the Library of the Royal Academy by Lady Eastlake 5. February 1870'.
Binding Note
19th-century brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Eastlake's Literature Of The Fine Arts. With Memoir Second Series. London John Murray.'
Art - Painting - Representation (form of expression) - Description - Connoisseurship - Theory
Essays - Memoirs - Biography - Great Britain - 19th century