Painting: Collections, catalogues, studiesThere are 77 items
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Art in England 1800-1820
New York & Cambridge, Macmillan Company / Cambridge University Press, 1928(25.5 cm), xiii (3), 344 (2) pp., 16 plates. Publisher’s cloth, printed paper lettering pieces on upper cover and spine, dust jacket. - A continuation volume (Art in England 1821-1837, Cambridge: University Press, 1930) is not present. ¶ Booksellers’ label: From the Books of J.W. Robinson Company, Seventh & Grand, Los Angeles. Price clipped from dust jacket; jacket defective at foot of spine, with losses; otherwise an immaculate copy. -
Catalogo della esposizione della pittura ferrarese del rinascimento [held in Palazzo dei Diamanti,] Ferrara, maggio-ottobre 1933
Ferrara, [Reale Accademia d'Italia?], 1933(24.5 cm), 230 (2) pp., text illustrations. 252 catalogue entries. Publisher’s quarter-green cloth, emblem printed on upper cover. - Revised second edition of this provocative exhibition (cf. Gilberto Pellizzola, “Nino Barbantini e l’Esposizione della Pittura ferrarese del Rinascimento” in Musei Ferraresi, volume 12, 1982, pp.157-170). ¶ Edges of the binding stained, headcap repaired with tape. -
A Catalogue of the pictures in the Garrick Club
London, Garrick Club, 1936(29 cm), viii, 310 (2) pp., plus 6 photogravure plates. Publisher’s vellum-backed grey cloth boards. - The author was Director of the National Portrait Gallery. ¶ Provenance: Victor Spark (1898-1991), New York dealer in Old Master paintings; Christie’s South Kensington, Art reference books from the estate of Victor D. Spark, 14 February 1992, lot 109, £160. Fine copy. -
Pitture italiane del rinascimento : Elenco dei principali artisti e delle loro opere con un indice dei luoghi : La Scuola Veneta
London & Florence, Phaidon Press / G.C. Sansoni, 1958Two volumes (27 cm), I: xvi (2), 213 (3) pp., frontispiece (in colour), series of black & white illustrations (nos. 1-628). II: (6), 45 (3) pp., frontispiece (in colour), series of black & white illustrations (nos. 629-1333). Uniform publisher’s green cloth, dust jackets; original plain card slipcase. ¶ Superior, unmarked copy. -
The Italian painters of the Renaissance : with 400 illustrations
London, Phaidon Press, 1959(27 cm), xiii (1), 488 pp., frontispiece (in colour), 400 numbered black & white illustrations included in pagination, plus 16 colour plates outside pagination. Publisher’s beige cloth, title lettered on upper cover. - The four essays in this volume were first published separately from 1894 to 1907, and collected in 1952. The present is the fifth impression. ¶ Inscription on endpaper: John Watson, 1960. Good copy. -
The diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon : Volume one : 1808-1815 § Volume two : 1816-1824
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1960Two volumes (24.5 cm), I: xxvi, 495 (1) pp., frontispiece, text illustrations. II: [10], 553 (1) pp., text illustrations. Uniform publisher’s brown cloth, dust jackets. - The first two volumes (only) of Pope’s edition (volumes III-V were published in 1963). ¶ Prices clipped from flaps of dust jackets; jackets torn, significant losses. Internally bright and unmarked. -
Salvator Rosa (Collana d’arte del Club del Libro, 5)
Milan, Edizioni per il Club del Libro, 1963(25.5 cm), 332 (2) pp., with 113 black & white illustrations, 24 colour plates, 4 fold-out plates, included in pagination. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket, publisher’s pictorial slipcase. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
I dipinti del Museo d’Arte Antica : Catalogo
Turin, [Poligrafiche riunite], 1963(24.5 cm), viii, 200 (10) pp., 326 p. of plates (some in colour). Publisher’s red cloth, lettered on upper cover. ¶ Fore-edge lightly foxed, but internally clean. -
Italian pictures of the Renaissance : a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places : Florentine School
London & Greenwich, CT, Phaidon Publishers Inc. / New York Graphic Society Publishers Ltd, 1963Two volumes (27 cm), I: xiv (2), 222 (4) pp., frontispiece (in colour), series of black & white illustrations (nos. 1-590). II: (8), 39 (1) pp., frontispiece (in colour), series of black & white illustrations (nos. 591-1478). Uniform publisher’s beige cloth, lettered. ¶ Very good, unmarked set. Lacking dust jackets. -
Italian pictures of the Renaissance : a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places : Florentine School
London, Phaidon, 1963Two volumes (27 cm), I: xiv (2), 222 (2) pp., frontispiece (in colour), black & white illustrations (nos. 1-590). II: (6), 39 (1) pp., frontispiece (in colour), black & white illustrations (nos. 591-1478). Uniform publisher’s beige cloth, lettered; dust jackets; original card slipcase. ¶ Slipcase rubbed, its printed labels discoloured; internally in excellent state of preservation. -
The later Italian pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (The Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen)
London, Phaidon Press, 1964(30 cm), 281 (1) pp., illustrations (some in colour, tipped-in). Catalogue entries numbered 350-701. Publisher’s cloth binding. - A second edition was published in 1991. ¶ Lacking dust jacket; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
Rembrandt and the Book of Tobit (Gehenna essays in art, 2)
[Northampton, MA], Gehenna Press, 1964(25.5 cm), 33 (9), [25] leaves of plates (figs.1-50). Errata slip tipped to p.[35]. Publisher’s vellum-backed green paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. - An essay discussing Rembrandt’s attraction to subjects from the Book of Tobit and obsession with themes of blindness (Tobit, Belisarius, Homer) and filial duty. Held believed that a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum (Benesch 64) with the caption ‘Harman Gerrits van der Rhijn’ written in Rembrandt’s hand shows Rembrandt’s father afflicted with blindness at the end of his life. Were this the case, Rembrandt’s numerous illustrations from the Book of Tobit become a form of personal testimony. 1000 copies printed by Harold McGrath at the Gehenna Press, with 50 plates by Meriden Gravure. Trade issue (25 copies were bound at the Harcourt Bindery in half-leather). Robert H. Cornell, Leonard Baskin: The Northampton Years (Springfield, MA 1977), B.3. ¶ This copy numbered 184. Fine, unmarked copy. -
Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection : Italian schools XIII-XV century § XV-XVI century § XVI-XVIII century
London, Phaidon Press / Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1966-1973Three volumes. I (XIII-XV century, 1966): viii, 435 (1) pp., 451 illustrations (17 in colour, tipped-in). II (XV-XVI century, 1968): (6) 459 (1) pp., 445 illustrations (13 in colour, tipped-in). III (XVI-XVIII century, 1973): (6) 470 (4) pp., 340 illustrations (9 in colour, tipped-in). Publisher’s blue cloth bindings. - The first attempt to publish in one place all the Italian paintings in the Kress collection. The entries provide all the essential information about dimensions, medium, support, provenance, exhibitions, bibliography; all the works are illustrated, and the volume is exhaustively indexed. The written opinions (“certificates”) of the experts upon whom Kress relied are meticulously reported. Arntzen & Rainwater M-9. ¶ Dust jackets lacking. Good, unmarked set. -
Anecdotes of painting in England
New York, Arno Press, 1969Four volumes (32 cm), uniformly bound in contemporary blue cloth. - Facsimile reprint of the James Dallaway-Ralph N. Wornum edition, published London: Chatto & Windus, 1876 (in three volumes). Added here, as a fourth volume, is a facsimile of the Frederick W. Hilles and Philip B. Daghlian edition of Anecdotes of Painting in England 1760-1795 (New Haven & London 1937). ¶ Gift inscription in ink on endpaper of volume I; otherwise an excellent, unmarked set. -
Italian Paintings : a catalogue of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Florentine School § Venetian school § Sienese and Central Italian Schools § North Italian School
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York Graphic Society, 1971-1986Four volumes (25 cm), I (1971): (12) 141 (3) pp., 125 black & white plates (pls.1-125). II (1973): (10) 114 (2) pp., 107 black & white plates (pls.1-107). III (1980): (10), 119 (1) pp., 112 black & white plates (pls.1-112). IV (1986): (10) 98 (2) pp., 77 black & white plates (pls.1-77). Uniform publisher’s brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket (except vol. II, in publisher’s printed wrapper, with pictorial dust jacket). - Catalogues of some 400 Italian paintings in the Metropolitan Museum. Each catalogue is arranged alphabetically by artist; a brief biography of each artist is given, and every painting is illustrated. ¶ Fine set with minimal traces of use and no marks of ownership. -
Census of pre-nineteenth century Italian paintings in North American public collections
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1972(25.5 cm), xxii, 678 pp. Publisher’s orange cloth, lettered; dust jacket. - An important work of reference of enduring utility. Each picture is listed at least three times, in separate indexes of “Artists” (alphabetically by name), “Subjects”, and “Collections” (alphabetically by location). A system of lettering identifies copies, works by followers, etc. References are provided to publications in which the work is discussed and reproduced. ¶ Dust jacket rubbed, piece missing from front; otherwise a good, unmarked copy. -
Donizetti : Cento disegni e trentadue dipinti : Introduzione di Enzo Fabiani
Bergamo, Edizioni Il Conventino, 1972(32 cm), 107 (1) pp., with 132 illustrations (8 in colour, mounted). Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Catalogue of paintings, executed 1952-1972; and of drawings, executed 1949-1972. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Catalogue of foreign paintings, l: Before 1800
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973(25 cm), xiii (1), 317 (1) pp. numerous black & white illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - 385 catalogue entries for paintings, most bequeathed to the Museum by the Rev. C.H. Townshend, John Jones, C.A. Ionides, Rev. Alexander Dyce, and other 19th-century benefactors. ¶ Text block loosening in wrapper; otherwise a good, unmarked copy. -
Salvator Rosa (catalogue of an exhibition sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain and held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 17 October-23 December 1973)
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973(25 cm), 88 pp., plus [32] p. of illustrations (pls.1-48). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Exhibition making the tercentenary of the painter’s death. The catalogue entries for Rosa’s pictures were written by Helen Langdon, those for other painters of the Seicento by Kitson himself. Thirty-one drawings were exhibited and twenty-seven etchings. ¶ Spine sunned; otherwise a very good copy. -
Jean Barbault 1718-1762 (catalogue of an exhibition held at Musée Départemental de l'Oise, Beauvais, 3 October-15 November 1974; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, 1 December 1974-15 January 1975; and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valence, 1 February-15 March 1975)
[Beauvais], Musée Départemental de l'Oise, 1974(25 cm), 76 pp., 88 monochrome illustrations on [16] leaves of plates. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - First retrospective exhibition of the little-known work of this French painter who worked in Rome, producing mainly figure studies and landscape. Publishes new chronology of the artist based on recent research. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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