Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721-1792
Title:
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 Manuscripts
N12 R7 S9 copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N12 R7 S9 copy 2
Yale 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.
Form/Genre:
Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century.
Contributors:
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713–1792, writer of supplementary textual content. | Dilly, Charles, 1739–1807, publisher. | Dilly, E. (Edward), 1732–1779, publisher. | Robson, James, 1733–1806, publisher. | Walter, John, -1803, publisher. | Wickwar, John, -1854, binder.