The Early Flemish Painters: Notices Of Their Lives and Works. By J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle.

Sir Joseph Arthur Crowe

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/6062

Author

Variant Title

Mr. Murray's General List Of Works

Imprint

London:: John Murray, Albemarle Street., 1857.

Physical Description

xii, 383, [1], 32 p., frontis., [14] pl.; 201 mm. (Duodecimo.)

Contents

[Frontis., t.p.] - Preface; Errata - List Of Illustrations - Contents - [Text and plates] - Index; [colophon] - [Publisher's advertisement].

Responsibility Note

Most plates are signed, as drawn by T.D. Scott or 'GS' and engraved by J. Cooper, J.W. Whymper or J Sa Williams. Most are captioned with the name of the source-artist.

The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: '(London:) Printed By Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill.'

Summary Note

The text describes the work of Hubert and John Van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Van der Meire, Hugo Van der Goes, Justus or Jodocus of Ghent, Roger Van der Weyden, Antonello da Messina, Hans Memling and Dierick Stuerbout.

It is followed by the publisher's advertisement, 'Mr. Murray's General List Of Works' (January, 1865) (printed by 'Bradbury And Evans, Printers, Whiterfriars').

Provenance

Purchased in 1868 (see 'Report on the Library', RA Annual Report for 1868, Appendix No. 6, p. 31). The verso of the front free-endpaper is inscribed in pencil 'S. A: H', i.e. S.A. Hart, Librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.

Binding Note

19th-century cream cloth; cream paper spine-label lettered 'The Early Flemish Painters'.

Subject

Painting - Painters - Belgium - History - 14th century - 15th century - Renaissance
Art history - Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century

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