A Curious Collection Of Ancient Paintings, Accurately Engraved from Excellent Drawings, Lately done after the Originals, By one of the Best Hands at Rome. With An Account where and when they were found, and where they now are; and several Critical, Historical, and Mythological Observations upon them. - By George Turnbull, L.L. D. - [Epigraph] -
London:: Printed for S. Birt and B. Dod in Ave-Mary-Lane, D. Browne without Temple-Bar, and W. Shropshire in New Bond-Street. -, M DCC XLIV.
Physical Description
[6], 42 p., pl. [1], 50, A-D; 391 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[T.p., second t.p., dedic.] - Advertisement - [Text] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The unnumbered plate and plates 1-50 are all signed by Camillo Paderni as draughtsman and J. Mynde as engraver (on plates 34, 35 Mynde's signature is almost erased). Plates A-D are unsigned.
The work is dedicated by 'G.T.' to Richard Mead.,
References
ESTC, T151195
For Turnbull see the bibliographic note on his A Treatise On Ancient Painting (1740).
On Paderni see M. De Vos, 'Camillo Paderni, la tradizione antiquaria romana e i collezionisti inglesi', in Ercolano 1738-1988 (1993), p.99-116.
Summary Note
The work had first been published in 1741; and in this edition the 1744 title page is followed by that of 1741, which reads, 'A Curious Collection Of Ancient Paintings, Accurately Engraved from Excellent Drawings, Lately done after the Originals, By one of the Best Hands at Rome. With An Account Where and When they were found, and where they now are; And several Critical, Historical, and Mythological Observations upon them. - [Epigraph] - London: Printed for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn. MDCCXLI.'
Turnbull also published Principles of moral philosophy (1740), A Treatise On Ancient Painting (1740) (in which he stressed the link beween art and ethics) and Observations upon liberal education (1742).
Reproductions
A microfilm version was published in 2004 (Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Microfilm [an imprint of Gale Group]).
Binding Note
19th-century brown cloth-covered boards; 20th-century half mottled calf; brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Turnbull's Treatise On Ancient Painting'.
Subject
Painting, Roman - Mural painting and decoration, Roman - Painting, European - Paintings, Roman - Paintings, European - Italy - Rome - History
Mythology, Greek
Art history - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century