Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... valuable objects of Antique and Oriental art, mss., etchings, &c, Copiously illustrated, some of the plates produced in colours. Printed for private distribution, London: 1871. iii. Metal Work. Orfevrerie Et Ouvrages En Metal Du Moyen-age. By T. H. King, of Bruges. Published in Paris, Brussels, and Leipsic; 1855. A series of engraved plates of ornamental design, as applied to Ecclesiastical Altar vessels, &c iv. Early Drawings, And Engravings. (A.) the ea rl Y italia N and germ A N ma sters. Introduction To A Catalogue Of The Early Italian Prints In The British Museum. By Richard Fisher, 1886. The Collection of Engravings by the masters of the early Italian Schools preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum is altogether unrivalled both in the range and in the quality of the examples by the chief masters which are included in it. This descriptive history of the origin and development of the art, as practised in Italy during the xvth. and early part of the xvith. centuries, was published by order of the Trustees, and presented by them to this museum. Reproductions Of Drawings By The Old Masters In The British Museum. I. A Portfolio series of photographic reproductions of pen and crayon drawings, by the Masters of different schools dating between the years 1400-1641. Part I.: 1888. The twenty-five plates included in the series contain 28 subjects: four being by Bellini; one by Tura; one by Gozzoli; two by L. Da Vinci; nine by Michael Angelo; two by T. Viti; four by Raphael; one by F. Mazzuoli; three by Diirer; and one by Van Dyck. ii. German Prints of the xv
