Anecdotes of painting in England: with some account of the principal artists : and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue : and now digested and published from his original Mss.

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Horace Walpole

Contributors

• • Has illustrator 

    Grignion, C.
  • Has illustrator 

    Chambers, Th.
  • Has illustrator 

    Bannerman, A.
  • Has illustrator 

    Bretherton, Ch.
  • Has illustrator 

    Millar, J.
  • Has illustrator 

    Walker, A.
  • Has illustrator 

    Bretherton, J.
  • Has illustrator 

    Hibbart, W.

Publisher

• Publication

  [Strawberry Hill]: printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, 1762-1771

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    schilderkunst
  • As subject 

    bouwkunst
  • As subject 

    kunstenaarsbiografieën (vorm)
  • As subject 

    tuinkunst

• Period

  1200-1772

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Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • With portraits engraved by A. Bannerman, C. Grignion, Th. Chambers, J. Millar, A. Walker, J. and Ch. Bretherton and W. Hibbart
  • The author's A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England (printed 1763) is a companion volume. Vols. 1-2 are reprints retaining printer statement and date 1762 from 1st ed.; actually printed by William Pratt, probably early in 1763. Vol. 3 has imprint: Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII. Vol 4, published in 1780, has imprint: Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXI. Vol. 1: xiii, [1], 168, [20] p., [16] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 158, [58] p., [25] leaves of plates; v. 3: [2], 155, [11] p., [37] leaves of plates; v. 4: x, 151, [9] p., [22] leaves of plates. References: Hazen, A.T. Strawberry Hill Press, p. 55-61. Includes indexes.
  • “Between 1762 and 1771, Walpole issued his four-volume ‘Anecdotes of Painting in England,’ based on the ‘Note-books’ of George Vertue, which he had acquired after Vertue’s death in 1756, but amplified by his own research. These ‘Anecdotes’ form a major component of early source material for the historiography of the arts in England, although they are strongly shaped by Walpole’s own prejudices. The fourth volume included his ‘History of the Modern Taste in Gardening,’ reissued separately in 1785. Though it is neither comprehensive nor exact, the fluency of style of this essay and its memorable phrasing have ensured its status as the most important account of the art in 18th-century England” (Michael McCarthy, in The Dictionary of Art).
  • Vol. 1-2 with title vignettes. Vol. 1 has front. print

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