An inquiry into the rise and establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts : to which is prefixed a letter to the Earl of Bute / by Robert Strange, member of the Royal Academy of Painting at Paris, of the academies of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Professor of the Royal Academy at Parma, &c.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, J. Robson, New Bond Street, and J. Walter, Charing Cross, MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 141, [1] pages ; 19 cm (8vo)
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsN12 R7 S9 copy 1Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionRare Books and ManuscriptsN12 R7 S9 copy 2Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Yale University Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center has two copies: Copy 1 is bound with copy 2 of: A descriptive catalogue of a collection of pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, Neapolitan, Flemish, French and Spanish schools / collected by Robert Strange. London, 1769. Copy 2 has the bookplate of Frederick Whiley Hilles.BAC: Bound by hand by Wickwar, London. (Copy 1)BEIN 2022 1412: 18 cm. Bound with a 12-page manuscript copy of a review of the book, signed A. B., from the Morning Post of 19 July 1775, in an 18th-century hand.Final page blank.English short title catalogue, T13021
Subject Terms:
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) | Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Bookplate.