Painting, And The Fine Arts: Being The Articles Under Those Heads Contributed To The Seventh Edition Of The Encyclopædia Britannica, By B.R. Haydon, Esq And William Hazlitt, Esq.
Edinburgh:: Adam And Charles Black, North Bridge, Booksellers To Her Majesty., MDCCCXXXVIII.
Physical Description
[4], 227, [1] p.; 200 mm. (Duodecimo.)
Contents
[T.p.] - [Text] - [Colophon].
Responsibility Note
The printer is named on the title page verso and in the colophon: 'Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour and Jack.'
References
S. Jones, Hazlitt (1989); J. Barrell, The political theory of painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt (1986).
Summary Note
These two articles first appeared in the 1824 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Hazlitt's article, 'The Fine Arts', is largely an attack on Sir Joshua Reynolds's concept of the Ideal as set out in his Discourses: Hazlitt's theory is that Art is first and last the imitation of Nature.
Binding Note
19th-century brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Painting'.