The arts and artists, or anecdotes & relics, of the schools of painting, sculpture & architecture / by James Elmes

Engraved title-pages

Vol.I: [1], iv-xix, [1], 288 p., engr. frontis. port., engr. t.-pl., [3] engr. pl., [1] fold. engr. table Vol.II: [1], iv-x, 288 p., engr. frontis. port., engr. t.-pl., [5] engr. pl. (1 fold.) Vol.III: [1], iv-xi, [1], 288 p., engr. frontis. port., engr. t.-pl., [4] engr. pl.

The plates consist of portraits of artists (Raphael, Van Eyck, Cimabue, Correggio, Michelangelo, Dürer, Claude Lorrain, Carlo Dolce, A. Carracci, Titian, Rubens, Gerard Dow, Hogarth, and Quintin Matsys); a chronological chart of painters and a folded plate of facsimile artists' signatures; and engraved title-plates with vignette views of the `residences' of Raphael and Michelangelo, and of the French Academy in Rome; Engravers: A. Adlard, H. Adlard, Scriven, W. Read

Includes an index in Vol.III.

Vol. I extra-illustrated with two loosely-inserted woodcut plates relating to Gainsborough