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The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters : containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists ... from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767 ... extracted from the most authentic writers who have treated on the subject of painting , in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Low Dutch : to which are added two catalogues, the one a catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters ... the other a catalogue of those painters, who imitated the works of the eminent masters so exactly, as to have their copies frequently mistaken for originals ..

by: Pilkington, Matthew, 1701-1784

Publication date: 1770

Topics: Painters, Painters -- Dictionaries

Publisher: London : Printed by T. Cadell (successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Item Size: 1,005.9M

Signatures: pi a-c d² B-4Y [4Z]1

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"Names of the principal authors, whose works have been consulted"--P. [xii]-xiii

Binding: sprinkled calfskin, tooled in gilt. Initial P beneath a duke's coronet centered on boards and at head of spine. Shelfmark in gilt on labels at head and foot of spine. Green ribbon place marker. Bookplate of William Arthur, 6th duke of Portland, signed: inv. W.P.B. 1900

xxxiv, 723 pages 28 cm

Signatures: pi⁴ a-c⁴ d² B-4Y⁴ [4Z]1

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