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THE GRAPHIC ARTS, A TREATISE ON THE VARIETIES OF DRAWING, PAINTING, AND ENGRAVING, IN COMPARISON WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH NATURE

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THE GRAPHIC ARTS, A TREATISE ON THE VARIETIES OF DRAWING, PAINTING, AND ENGRAVING, IN COMPARISON WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH NATURE

by HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT

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New York, Macmillan and Co.., 1882. Large 4to. First American Edition. Full leather with gilt spine. Deckled edges. 54 prints after artists from the Renaissance through the 19th century. 384 pp. Hamerton offers a comprehensive history of the graphic arts covering everything from silverpoint to lithography. xvi + 384 pages; index; with 54 illustrations, collated complete as per the contents list; many of which are finely-printed on India paper and then laid-down to the sheet, and tissue guarded; A huge compendium of techniques, styles, methods of artistic creation; approx. 15" x 11" in size and weighing nearly 12 pounds: works by Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Turner, Maclise, Lalanne, Poynter, Burne-Jones, Zucchero, Watteau, Holbein, Birket Foster, Titian, Bewick, Rembrandt, Durer, Delaune, Veronese, Holl, Hunt, Chardin, Muller, more; Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834-1894) British artist and essayist studied art in London, resided on the isle of innistrynich, Loch Awe, 1858, art critic to Saturday Review, began the periodical "The Portfolio" and was its director till his death; also published two novels. (DNB); that the MacMillan edition is less common;

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THE GRAPHIC ARTS, A TREATISE ON THE VARIETIES OF DRAWING, PAINTING, AND ENGRAVING, IN COMPARISON WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH NATURE
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HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT
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L'estampe Originale, founded in 1978 by Sandra Sofris Dolmatch, MFA, is a private art and antiquarian book dealer devoted to the research and selling of fine original prints, drawings, paintings, and sculpture- old master, nineteenth and twentieth century. It is a small company based on the traditional European model, that is to say with a medium sized and varied inventory embracing both major artists and minor, expensive and inexpensive. The list of writers, publishers and artists represented in our inventory is numerous, the techniques include a variety of drawings, etchings, engravings, aquatints, mezzotints, dry points, lithography, woodcuts, wood engravings, screen prints and a selection of mixed media. Although we are by nature generalists in the field, we have particular strengths in 19th and 20th century prints, paintings, and rare books. Sandra has been a member of ABAA, CINOA and ILAB since 1980. She numbers among her clients, private collectors, art dealers, libraries, foundations, as well as museums and rare book rooms in Europe, Asia, and Australia. You will find many of her antiquarian books, prints, and drawings as L'estampe Originale on the following websites:www.abaa.orgwww.biblio.comwww.abebooks.comwww.ilab.comor my own website at www. lestampeoriginale.com

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