Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Burtin, François-Xavier de, 1743-1818

Title:

Treatise on the knowledge necessary to amateurs in pictures. Tr. and abridged from the French of M. Francois-Xavier de Burtin by Robert White.

Alternate Title(s):

Traité théorique et pratique des connoissances qui sont nécessaires à tout amateur de tableaux. English

Published / Created:

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, [etc., etc.] 1845.

Physical Description:

x p., 1 leaf, 338 p. front., 3 pl. 22 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND1135 B85

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

BAC : Advertisements: 32 p. at end, printed by Wilson and Ogilvy.

BAC : Frontispiece and several plates by Maclure & Macdonald, Glasgow, after Corregio or Parmegiano, C. Poelemberg, and Van Aelst. Another plate lithographed by Wilt from a design by Fr. Schenck, after Teniers.

BAC : "Printed by A. Spottiswoode."

"Alphabetical list, containing the names of most of the best Flemish, Dutch, and German painters, with the highest prices at which their pictures have been sold": p. 234-246.

Subject Terms:

Painting. | Art museums. | Painting -- Private collections. | Painting -- Prices.

Contributors:

White, Robert, of Edinburgh.