The printers' names appear on the verso of the title-page and in the colophon: 'London: Bradbury And Evans, Printers, Whitefriars.'
The work is dedicated by Maria Callcott 'To The Miss Warrens' (daughters of her physician).
References
C. LLoyd, 'Lady Callcott's honeymoon, 1827-8: art-historical reflections in Germany and Italy', in Taste and travel in the nineteenth century, ed. C. Richardson and G. Smith (2001); M. Callcott, The journal of Maria, Lady Callcott, 1827-8, ed. C. LLoyd and D.B. Brown (1981); R.B. Gotch, Maria, Lady Callcott: the creator of 'Little Arthur' (1937).
Summary Note
These essays exemplify the growing British interest in painters of the early Renaissance - Lady Callcott's appreciation of whom probably influenced the connoisseurship of her young friend Charles Eastlake. The work draws to some extent on her travels with her husband, Augustus Wall Callcott, R.A., in Germany and Italy in 1827-8, when they met the 'Nazarenes' and other groups of artists and such pioneering art-historians as the brothers Boisserée, Carlo Lasinio and G. von Dillis.
The text consists of six essays: I.(on the origin of art); II. Of Art In Ancient Italy; III. Of Painting In Greece; IV. Of The Third Period Of Painting In Greece; V. Classification Of Pictures; VI. On The Materials Used By Painters.
In 1838 Lady Callcott published Continuation of Essays towards the History of painting.
Provenance
Presented by the author in 1836 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, VIII, 206).
Binding Note
19th-century diced calf; gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Callcott On Painting'.
Subject
Art - Painting - Middle East - Mediterranean Region - Europe - Greece - Italy - History
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century