De arte graphica : the art of painting

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Description

Title
De arte graphica : the art of painting
Alternative Title
Art of painting
Short account of the most eminent painters both ancient and modern
Creator
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-1668, author
Contributor
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Heptinstall, John, printer.
Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 1662-1733, engraver.
Graham, Richard, active 1680-1720.
Published / Created
MDCXCV [1695]
Publication Place
London and England London
Publisher
Printed by J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers, at the Sun against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet
Description
Signatures: [pi]² a-h⁴ B-2Y⁴ 2Z².
Translation of: De arte graphica.
Added title-page, engraved by S. Gribelin.
Title page in red and black.
Includes the original poem in Latin; translated from the French version of R. de Piles.
'A short account of the most eminent painters ... ' [by R. Graham] has special title-page.
Errata: p. [356]
Original panelled calf; it was quite probably a copy kept in the house in town and bequeathed to Lady Waldegrave. Mr. Harris Prior of Geneva, N.Y., also owns a copy of the edition of 1695, in which Horace Walpole's bookplate has been inserted.
Laid in is the lining paper of a copy of this edition in which Horace Walpole's bookplate had been inserted, owned by Harris Prior. No press mark was found. With four architectural sketches in pencil on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Horace Walpole's copy with his autograph and some notes; not sold in 1842. Armorial bookplates of John Hopton Russell Hopton Chichester, and of Lord Carlingford. Later owned by Lord Strachie. The Strawberry Hill Sale copy of the first edition 1695; quarto, does not appear in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763 or in the Strawberry Hill Sale; but it is now at The Lewis Walpole Library, and has Horace Walpole's signature and a few notes. It has the bookplate of Lord Carlingford, who married Frances, Countess Waldegrave and was sold by Lord Strachie, whose mother was Lady Waldegrave's niece, to W.S. Lewis in 1943. An earlier bookplate is that of John Hopton Russell Chichester, a barrister of Lincolns Inn. W.S. Lewis was sent it to look at. He had bookplate removed. No sign of a pressmark. He did not buy it. Offered to The Lewis Walpole Library in 1983, by R.W. Smith, bookseller in New Haven, $450.00 - not taken. Lord Strachie; 1943.
Extent
[4], lxiv, 355, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
49 296A

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Original art
Annotations (Provenance)
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Painters
Painting
Subjects
Painters > Early works to 1800
Painting > Early works to 1800
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Autograph
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Chichester, John Russell Hopton, F.S.A. > Bookplate
Carlingford, Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron, 1823-1898 > Bookplate
Strachie, Edward Strachey, Baron of, 1882-1973 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
1736975
Object ID (OID)
17480176

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