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Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts : with a letter on the proposal for a public memorial of the naval glory of Great Britain.

Title: Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts : with a letter on the proposal for a public memorial of the naval glory of Great Britain. By the late John Opie, Esq., professor in painting to the Royal Academy. To which are prefixed, a memoir by Mrs. Opie, and other accounts of Mr. Opie's talents and character.
Author: Opie, John, 1761-1807.
Publication: London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 1809.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Book/Text	Permit needed	Pforz (Opie, J. Lectures on painting)	Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319
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vi, [2], 81 [i.e. 83], [1], 166, [3], 172-186 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill.; 28 cm.

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Printer's imprint: "Richard Taylor and Co., Printers, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street."
Illustrations: Mezzotint frontispiece portrait by S. W. Reynolds after Opie. -- Nine portrait etchings, by I. Girtin, of artists mentioned in the text (Poussin, Durer, Buonaroti, Caracci, Romano, Titian, Veronese,Tintoretto, Rubens), tinted pink, within reddish-brown decorative boarders. -- Etched portrait of William Hogarth; by Saml. Ireland after Hogarth.
"The seventh number of The artist," a collection of reflections on Opie, includes contributions by Prince Hoare, James Northcote, M. A. Shee, and Elizabeth Inchbald (p. [55]-80, first set).
Includes index.

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Call Number

Pforz (Opie, J. Lectures on painting)

LCCN

11032849

OCLC

2642836
NYPGR2642836-B

Author

Opie, John, 1761-1807.

Title

Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts : with a letter on the proposal for a public memorial of the naval glory of Great Britain. By the late John Opie, Esq., professor in painting to the Royal Academy. To which are prefixed, a memoir by Mrs. Opie, and other accounts of Mr. Opie's talents and character.

Imprint

London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 1809.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy 1: Bound in contemporary half green morocco with marbled boards; rebacked; spine gilt.

Pforzheimer copy 2: Lacking all illustrations save the frontispiece. -- With the armorial bookplate of Horatio Noble Pym. -- Bound second, with Fuseli's Lectures on Painting (1801). -- Bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. Within buff phase-box. -- Shelved with oversized books under "Fuseli."

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Added Author

Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853.

Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834.

Northcote, James, 1746-1831.

Shee, Martin Archer, 1769-1850.

Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.

Reynolds, Samuel William, 1794-1872. Engraver

Girtin, James. Etcher

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Illustrator

Ireland, Samuel, -1800. Etcher

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Publisher

Pym, Horace N. Former owner

Research Call Number

Pforz (Opie, J. Lectures on painting)

3-MC (Opie, J. Lectures on painting)

Pforz+ (Fuseli, H. Lectures on painting)

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