[Rarebooks] FS: Important 1844 Translation of Renaissance Painting Treatise

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"A Treatise on Painting, written by Cennino Cennini in the Year 1437; and
first published in Italian in 1821, with an introduction and notes, by
Signor Tambroni: containing practical directions for painting in Fresco,
Secco, Oil, and Distemper, with the art of Gilding and Illuminating
Manuscripts adopted by the Old Italian Masters. Translated by Mrs.
Merrifield"

By Cennino Cennini & [Mary Philadelphia] Merrifield.
Published in London by Edward Lumley: 1844.

Cennini’s “Trattato” is a remarkable and comprehensive technical manual to
methods employed by 14th and 15th century Italian artists for tempera
painting, early oil painting and gilding. This was the first English
translation and was very popular and influential with artists and art
enthusiasts of the period, although it had a number of deficiencies
stemming from Mrs. Merrifield’s lack of knowledge of tempera painting and
also because the manuscript she was using lacked sixteen chapters.

Mrs. Merrifield’s several books on art history and the technical aspects
of painting were popular among 19th century artists, and she was
influential to the Pre-Raphaelites. However, “the main importance of her
work lies in her development of the historical study of documents”
(Ernstrom, Grove Dictionary of Art). The two chromolithographed title
pages are also worthy of note, both executed in a style reminiscent of
illuminated manuscripts. An important and noted Victorian art study.  A
year after publishing this translation she would publish a very important
work on fresco technique.

Hardcover. 6.75”x10.5”, xii + lxviii + 177 pages, plus 2
chromolithographed title pages and 9 lithographed line-illustrated plates.
Publisher’s blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorations. Skillfully
rebacked, with new endpapers. Covers a bit rubbed, with a little soil and
wear. Contents with light wear & soil and a few spots.  $375~

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