Lectures on painting, delivered at The Royal Academy, by Henry Fuseli, P.P. ; with additional observations and notes

Henry Fuseli RA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

04/3301

Author

Henry Fuseli RA

Variant Title

Half-title: Lectures on painting

Edition

2nd Ed.

Imprint

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820

Physical Description

xviii, 257 p.: ill.; 30 cm.

General Note

Second copy lacking half-title page
The pages of the second copy have been cut down. It measures 28 cm.

Contents

Frontis, t.p. - Introduction - First lecture: Ancient Art - Second lecture: Art of the Moderns - Third lecture: Invention, Part I - Fourth lecture: Invention, Part II - Fifth lecture: Composition, Expression - Sixth lecture - Chiaroscuro - tail-piece vignette.

Responsibility Note

The frontispiece is a portrait of Fuseli engraved by R.W. Sievier after a miniature by Moses Haughton the younger. The title-page vignette is of ‘Silence’ engraved by John Burnet after Fuseli. The tail-piece [p. 257] `Fantasy portrait of Michelangelo before the Roman Coliseum’ re-engraved by Francis Engleheart for this second edition. (The version in the first edition (1801) was engraved by William Blake after Fuseli’s pen-and-ink preliminary sketch).

Name as Subject

Henry Fuseli RA

Contributors

Robert William Sievier, engraver
Moses Haughton the younger, source artist
John Burnet, engraver
Francis Engleheart, engraver
Cadell and Davies (London), publisher
A. and R. Spottiswoode (London), printer

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