HAYDON, B.R.

Lectures on Painting and Design.

London: Longman Brown, 1844.

Origin of the Art...The Skeleton - the Muscles of Man and Quadruped...Composition - Colour- Effect of the Societies on Taste - on Fresco - Elgin Marbles etc. 2 volumes, lithograph frontispiece portrait of Haydon, tissue guard, 2 folding anatomical plates, woodcut text illus., 8vo, blind stamped brown cloth, volume 1 neatly recased. London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1844. Scarce.Very good copy with scattered foxing.

Very scarce book in beautiful condition with the small ownership signature of art historian Meyer Schapiro.

Binding: Hardcover
Language: English

Price: $600.00

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