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

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

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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