[Rarebooks] FS: 1845 Guide to Picture-Buying

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Treatise on the Knowledge Necessary to Amateurs in Pictures.
Translated and Abridged from the French of M. Francois-Xavier de Burtin”

By Robert White.
Published in London by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans in 1845.

DISCUSSION: The original edition, published in Brussels in 1808, contained
an extensive and detailed catalog of the personal picture collection of M.
Burtin, which White judged to have not been of sufficient interest to his
English readers to warrant the expense of including here. White has also
updated some material to reflect current scholarship, and has added
information concerning prices realised at auction for pictures in major
collections in France over the prior hundred years. The main text remains
as close to the author’s original as White was able to come, and begins
with a lengthy discussion of what makes a good picture before moving on to
how to judge pictures, how to judge a picture’s state of preservation, how
to recognize copies, how to analyze and describe a picture, a description
of the principal schools of painting, classification of pictures by
subject, why 16th and 17th century pictures are superior to 18th century
works, the differing manners of the Masters, signatures, DePile’s ‘Balance
of Painters’, cleaning pictures, varnishes, remarks on public galleries in
Europe, and how to form a private collection.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6”x9”, x + 338 pages, 3 lithographed plates, 1
tinted; publisher’s dark green embossed cloth with gilt spine title.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers a bit worn and rubbed, tips soft, some internal
foxing and discoloration, including to the plates.

PRICE: $200. -

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