Book/Printed Material The works, containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essay on the art of criticism, so far as it relates to painting. III. The science of a connoisseur. Copy 1
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Image 1 of Copy 1- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
- Date: 1792
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Image 2 of Copy 1- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 3 of Copy 1 ce 39 906 pe SÂ 311 11 2 THE GIFT OF 2 LESSING JROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ww a- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 6 of Copy 1- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 7 of Copy 1 z ap arrsel si DB 7 SBR eynolds E Sir J NAT ARPS A- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 8 of Copy 1 Ww O B LK 3 JONATHAN RICHARDSON CONTAINING I THE THEORY OF PAINTING II ESSAY ON THE ART OF CRITICISM So far as it relates to PAINTING 11 THE SCIENCE OF A…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 9 of Copy 1- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 10 of Copy 1 TO SFTOSHUR âREVNOLDS Prefident of the Royal Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society S1R CO A New and improved Edition of the Works of JONATHAN RICHARDSON cannot be inferibed with fo…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 11 of Copy 1 DEDICATION Had RICHARDSON lived to fee the inimitable Pro duÃtions of your Pencil he would have congratulated his Country on the ProfpeÃt of a School of Painting likely to contend fuccefsfully with…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 12 of Copy 1 CO NT EN Toon of Painting Of Invention â Of Expreffion Of Compofition ne Of Defign or Drawing es Of Colouring sw Of Handling â Of Grace and Greatnefs em Of the…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 13 of Copy 1 C ONTUENTS Of Mafters in Portrait Of Mafters in Animal Life Of Mafters in Landfcape â Cautions to Colleftors â Table of the moft eminent Painters- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 14 of Copy 1 THEORY OF PAINTING Because pictures are univerfally delightful and accordingly make one part of our ornamental furniture many I believe con fider the art of Painting but as a pleafing fuperfluity at…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 15 of Copy 1 8 one of thofe particulars which raifes the dignity of human nature fo much above the brutes and which is the more confidÃrable as being a gift beftowed but upon a few…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 16 of Copy 1 72 The pleafure that Painting as a dumb art gives us is like what we have from mufic its beautiful forms colours and harmony are to the eye what founds and the…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 17 of Copy 1 8 perfon and has a graceful aflion is to a deaf man but what fuch a one is to an underftanding audience And thus Painting not only fhews us how things appear…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 18 of Copy 1 9 indications of the mind and illuftrates whatthe hiftorian ays more exprefsly and particularly Let a man read a charater in my Lord Clarendon and certainly never was there a better painter…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 19 of Copy 1 10 And if my ideas are raifed the fentiments excited in my mind will be proportionably improved So that fuppofing two men per fefily equal in all other refpeÃls only one is…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 20 of Copy 1 nn be a jufl fubjeft of ridicule for defiring or fuffering Tuch flattery but I myfelf muft lay on the moft durable colours my owncondutt gives the boldeft firokes of beauty or…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 21 of Copy 1 1 clearly and nobly in his mind or he can never exprefls it upon the canvafls he muft have a folid judgment with a lively imagination and know what figures and what…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 22 of Copy 1 013 1 Befides all this it is ablolutely neceflary to a hiftorypainter that he underftand anatomy olteology geometry perfpettive archi teâture and many other ciences which the hiftorian or poet has little…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 23 of Copy 1 4 a man of fenfe or it will be impoffible for him to give fuch their true and proper refemblances But if a painter of this kind is not obliged to take…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 24 of Copy 1 15 twixt things nearly refembling one another but not the fame which he muft have in common with thofe of the nobleft profeflions but he muft moreover have the fame delicacy in…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 25 of Copy 1 716 1 inferior an animal that has the ufe of hands and peech and reafon isthe definition of a man the painter has alanguage in common with the reft of his pecies…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 26 of Copy 1 oer of fervice they do and others have yearly falaries and perquifites or vails but this alters not the cafe Nor is it difhonourable for any of us to take money he…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 27 of Copy 1 113 lities and opportunities equal to fuch an undertaking thefe confe quently have fallen into contempt whether upon account of fuch deficiency or the vices or follies which were in part the…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 28 of Copy 1 19 of all the time and all the vigour of body and mind allowed to humane nature he fhould take care to hufbend and improve thele as âmuch as poffible by prudence…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 29 of Copy 1 20 wrote on it have not done As to thofe properties in a piÃture fo much fpoken of fuch as force fpirit the underftanding of the Clairobfcure or whatever other there may…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 30 of Copy 1 i i FARE LILLIE Ra agli ASB BY A BL BT 1 Ne ee- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 31 of Copy 1 3 a og iB g a a i  i i 1   i t i 5 Ch â 3 a en gist py and pain elp whe tha hun Fla…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 32 of Copy 1 v 21 world and would probably have been yet better had Van Dyckâs model been followed but fome painters poflibly finding themelves incapable of fucceeding in bis way and having found their…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 33 of Copy 1 for not only it makes the reading of them the more pleafant but their relations with fuch additions are fometimesmore probably the truth than when nothing more is fuppofed to have happened…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 34 of Copy 1 23 An improvement much of the fame nature is the angels that are frequently introduced in a nativity or on other occafions the noble though not rich habit of the Virgin and…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 35 of Copy 1 24 flory is of a fire at Rome miraculoufly extinguifhed by S Leo IV Becaule a fire is feldom very great but when there happens to be a high wind he has…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 36 of Copy 1 25 the fet and have made thofe figures appear lefs confiderable there would have been too much boat and too little figure It is amifs as it is but would have been…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 37 of Copy 1 26 ed the light muft not be made to come the contrary way and Dio genes in the fun beams Nor muft our Saviour be made to help put himfelf into his…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 38 of Copy 1 27 J impaired by age there is majefty in his face but not terror he fits upon the clouds his righthand lifted up giving his benedition the left arm is wrapped in…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 39 of Copy 1 28 with their backs turned fome preffing forward asif they were atten tive to what was faid and fome going off and this I thould chufe for as to the laft though…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
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Image 40 of Copy 1 29 approve in this particular of that amazing picture of the transfigura tion where the incidental aflion of the manâs bringing his fon pof fefled with the dumb devil to the difciples…- Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England) - Thomas and John Egerton (Firm) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - B. White and Son - Walpole, Horace - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Richardson, Jonathan
- Date: 1792
About this Item
Title
- The works, containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essay on the art of criticism, so far as it relates to painting. III. The science of a connoisseur.
Names
- Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745.
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
- Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
- B. White and Son, bookseller.
- Thomas and John Egerton (Firm), bookseller.
- Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England), publisher.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [London] Printed at Strawberry-Hill, Sold by B. White and Son, Fleetstreet; T. and J. Egerton, Whitehall ..., 1792.
Headings
- - Painting--Early works to 1800
- - Engraving--Early works to 1800
- - England--London
Notes
- - With forged Strawberry Hill vignette on title page.; not a genuine Strawberry Hill imprint. Cf. A.T. Hazen. A bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press. 1942, p. 83.
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1771
- - English short title catalogue, T52772
- - LC copy imperfect: lacks half-title, reading: Supplement to ... Horace Walpole's Anecdotes ...
- - LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis.
- - LAC snh 2019-09-10 update (2 card)
- - LAC ddw 2022-04-06 update (1 card)
Medium
- vii, 287 p. 18 ports. 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- ND1130 .R53 1792
- ND1130 .R53 1792a Another issue. Title page with Strawberry Hill vignette; but without note: Printed at Strawberry Hill; White's name omitted in imprint. Twelve portraits (listed after table of contents) in part different from those in the other issue, colored in brown. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis.
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Library of Congress Control Number
- 49039819
OCLC Number
- 3852332
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Contributor
- B. White and Son
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Richardson, Jonathan
- Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
- Walpole, Horace