[Notes on art]

Description

Title: [Notes on art]
Creator: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
Published / Created: [ca. 1794 or later]
Abstract: Manuscripts, in numerous hands, of a collection of notes on art. The collection includes numerous lists of works Reynolds saw while visiting Italian museums, houses, and private collections; 2 pencil drawings of a country house; and an undated letter regarding "the beautiful Episode of Abradatas and Panthea": of this episode, he writes, "it occurred to me that this Story might furnish to the pencil a Suite of Subjects." Other items include a note on Raphael�s "School of Athens"; an "Ode, Inscribed to Sir Abraham Hume, on his painting two beautiful Pictures of Views near his seat at Wormley Herts"; and an anonymous criticism of Reynolds� last Discourse on painting and poetry which he had "delivered to the students of the Royal Academy."
Extent: 30 items
various sizes
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English
French
Italian
Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Notes
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name): Hume, Abraham, Sir, bart., 1749-1838
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Subject (Topic): Art --Great Britain
Art --Italy
English poetry --18th century
Memorandums
Odes
Painting
Painting --Great Britain

Access: Public
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