[Rarebooks] FS: Newly Added- Important 1846 on Fresco Painting

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

>From our newly released catalog-
RECENT ACQUISITIONS FOR SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
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Merrifield, [Mary Philadelphia]. THE ART OF FRESCO PAINTING, as practiced
by the Old Italian and Spanish Masters, with a Preliminary Inquiry into
the nature of the Colours Used in Fresco Painting, with observations and
notes.

London; ‘published for the author by Charles Gilpin’: 1846.

An influential and important study, commissioned by the British
government, which translated and analyzed instructional texts on the
painting of frescos from Antiquity to the 17th century, with an eye toward
the promotion of an English school of fresco painters. A year earlier Mrs.
Merrifield had completed her famous translation of Cennino Cennini’s
“Libro dell’ arte”, and as important as her works were from a practical
standpoint for the 19th century artist, among whom she was especially
influential with the Pre-Raphaelites, “the main importance of her work
lies in her development of the historical study of documents” (Ernstrom,
Grove Dictionary of Art). Historical documents are all well and good, but
Mrs. Merrifield was aiming higher-

        “I firmly believe,” she wrote in her Introduction, “that fresco
painting will be extensively and successfully practiced in this
country, by our own native artists, and will ultimately attain a
perfection, equal to that for which the Italian schools were so
justly celebrated”.

    Hardcover. 6”x9”, lvi + 134 pages; publisher’s brown cloth with
blindstamped patterns, gilt spine title; an exceptionally fresh and
nice copy. [09463] $300.00


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