[Rarebooks] FS: 1845 Treatise on Picture Collecting and Collections

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

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

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

Hardcover. 6"x9", x + 338 pages, 3 lithographed plates, 1 tinted; 
publisher's dark green embossed cloth with gilt spine title; covers a 
bit worn and rubbed, tips soft, some internal foxing and discoloration, 
including to the plates.  [37743]  $65

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