The Art of Painting. . . with Remarks. Translated into English, with an Original Preface, containing a Parallel between Painting and Poetry: by Mr Dryden. Also a short account of the most Eminent Painters, both Ancient and Modern: By R[ichard] G[raham], Esq

Book Description

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1716. [xvi], lxviii, [iv], 397, [7]pp., 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, and a headpiece of the Burlington coat of arms, both by Gribelin; frontispiece slightly browned, but an excellent copy, printed on unusually high-quality paper. Contemporary panelled calf; neatly rebacked and gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription “Philip Southcot” on title. “The Second Edition, Corrected, and Enlarg'd,” the additions including the first appearance of Alexander Pope's six-page poem “To Mr. Jervas, with Fresnoy’s Art of Painting”: “Read these instructive Leaves, in which conspire/ Fresnoy's close Art, and Dryden's native Fire.” The painter Charles Jervas was a close friend of Pope who instructed him in painting; apparently both he and Pope had a hand in editing this edition of the standard work on painting of the French Academy. Griffith, Bibliography of Pope, 46, describing an issue “Printed by B.L. for William Taylor.”

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