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Lectures on painting: delivered at the Royal Academy, March, 1801

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First series (1801): [part 1]. First lecture. Ancient art. Second lecture. Art of the moderns. Third lecture. Invention -- [part 2]. Fourth lecture. Invention, pt. 2. Fifth lecture. Composition, expression. Sixth lecture. Chiaroscuro.Second series (1820): Seventh lecture. On design; Eighth lecture. Colour in fresco painting; Nineth lecture. Colour in oil painting; Tenth lecture. The method of fixing a standard and defining the proportions of the human frame; Eleventh lecture. On the prevailing method of treating the history of painting with observations on the picture of Lionardo da Vinci of 'The last supper'; Twelfth lecture. On the present state of the art and the causes which check its progress.

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    London: Printed for J. Johnson, (Luke Hansard, Printer), 1801-1820

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    • Part 2 omits "March, 1801" in title and has Cadell and Davies imprint.
    • A second series of lectures appeared posthumously, in 1830.
    • Part [1] has title vignette engraved by Francis Legat, and tail-piece, engraved by William Blake (portrait of Michelangelo), both after Fuseli; frontispiece portrait to part 2 engraved by R.W. Sievier after Moses Haughton Sr.
    • Signatures: A1, 2.3, B-U⁴ (±U4); [pi]², a-b⁴, B-E⁴ (±E2.3), F-O⁴, P² (E2.3 cancellans signed '*E2.3').

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