De arte graphica. The art of painting, by C.A. Du Fresnoy. . With remarks. Translated into English, together with an original preface containing a parallel betwixt painting and poetry. By Mr. Dryden. As also a short account of the most eminent painters, both ancient and modern, continu'd down to the present times, according to the order of their succession. By another hand.
Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy (1611 - 1668)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3083610
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], lxiv, 355, [1] p. . 4to.. Former shelfmark: Mm.11-5; Nn.2.1. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors]. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, gold-decorated spine, brown spine-label, gold-lettered, spine worn.
Makers and roles
Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy (1611 - 1668) John Dryden (1631 - 1700) Richard Graham (1680-1727)