The Italian Schools Of Painting With Observations On The Present State Of The Art - By The Rev J T James

John Thomas James bishop of Calcutta

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/3305

Author

Variant Title

Mr. Murray has The Following Works In The Press

Imprint

London: John Murray Albemarle Street, 1820

Physical Description

viii, [ii], 307, [1] p.; 228 mm. (Octavo.)

Contents

[T.p.] - Preface - Contents - Errata - [Text] - Index - [Colophon].

Responsibility Note

The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'London. Printed By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars.'

Summary Note

The first chapter consists of Observations on the present state of art, and the last is a survey of Sculpture. All the rest consist of a 'Catalogue' and a 'History' of paintings made in Italy, separately considered according to town 'schools' - of Florence, Sienna, Rome, Naples, Venice, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Cremona, Milan, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Piedmont and Savoy.

Provenance

A front endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'The Bequest of Sr. A.W. Callcott'.

Copy Note

At the end of the Royal Academy's copy is bound in the publisher's catalogue, 'Mr Murray Has The Following Works In The Press', carrying the date 'December, 1825'.

Binding Note

19th-century brown papered boards; white paper spine-label lettered 'The Italian Schools Of Painting - Rev J T James - London 1820'.

Subject

Painting - Italy - History
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
Publishers' catalogues - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

John Murray, publisher
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA, previous owner, donor
Thomas Davison, printer