[Rarebooks] FS: "The Art of Fresco Painting" Important 1846 Book

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: "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"

By Mary Philadelphia Merrifield.
Printed in London; ‘published for the author by Charles Gilpin’: 1846.

DISCUSSION: 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 Historical documents are all well and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”.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6”x9”, lvi + 134 pages; publisher’s
diamond-patterned green cloth with a printed cover label.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers with some rubbing, label rubbed and chipped (see
photo); a little internal soil and wear.

PRICE:  $250.00

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