[Rarebooks] FS: 1844 Treatise on Fresco & Tempra Painting

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “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 in 1844.

DISCUSSION: 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. A year after publishing this translation she would publish a
very important work on fresco technique.

As important as Mrs. Merrifield’s several books on art history 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). 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.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6.75”x10.5”, xii + lxviii + 177 pages, plus 2
chromolithographed title pages and 9 lithographed outline plates.

CONDITION NOTES: Rebound with a plain blue cloth spine and cream boards,
leather and gilt spine label. New endpapers. Minor wear, light soil, but
otherwise clean and nice, with a tight binding.

PRICE:  $375

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