Some Account of the Life and Works of Hans Holbein, Painter of Augsburg

Ralph Nicholson Wornum

Verlag: Chapman and Hall, London, 1867

Beschreibung

A first edition of this nineteenth-century work on Holbein by the famous art historian Wornum. First Edition. Featuring an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contains numerous illustrated plates. With a bookseller's label for James Miles, Leeds, to the front pastedown. Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1812 1877) was an English artist, art historian and administrator. He was Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery of London from 1855 until his death. He contributed to several publications, including the Penny Cyclopaedia (1840), Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1841) and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's Biographical Dictionary (unpublished). To these, he added articles to the Art Journal, among them criticizing the current catalogues of the National Gallery. In a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, lightly rubbed in places. Internally, generally firmly bound although slightly strained in places. Some light foxing to the first and last few pages but otherwise generally clean. Ex Worcester Public Library copy with stamps to several of the pages and borrowers label to the front pastedown and spine. Good Only. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GEN18-I-15

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Some Account of the Life and Works of Hans ...

Verlag: Chapman and Hall, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1867

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Good Only

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book