Shelfmark
En.4.20
Author
Bardwell, Thomas, 1704 - 1767
Title
Practical treatise on painting in oil-colours.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for B. and J. White, Fleet-street., 1795.
Physical description
xvi, 246 p. ; 8vo.
Note
A pirated ed., omitting the perspective, of Bardwell's "Practice of painting and perspective made easy", published in 1756. Cf. DNB.
Note
Wove paper; watermark: 1794 WS.
Note
Half-title.
Note
Includes contents page, p. xv.
Provenance
Inscriptions in several hands on half-title page: Samuel Evans, Eton, 1795-1823. William Evans. 1824 to 1853. Samuel T.G. Evans, 1853 to 1903. W Sidney V Evans. Keate's Lane, Eton - 1893-1922.
Provenance
Inscription on front pastedown: Present to the Drawing School Library Eton. 1943. W.I.V. Evans.
Binding
Contemporary English; boards covered in light blue paper; spine covered in pale brown cotton.
Copy-specific note
Manuscript recipes for oil paint in early 19th century hand pasted facing half-title.
Subject
Painting Technique.
Subject
Art Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Evans, Samuel (), 1762 - 1835 former owner.
Added entry--name
Evans, William, 1798 - 1877 former owner.
Added entry--name
Evans, Samuel Thomas George, 1829 - 1904 former owner.
Added entry--name
Evans, William, 1869 - 1943 former owner.
Added entry--name
B. and J. White printers.
Added entry--name
Eton College Drawing Schools former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B32523