Horace Walpole

Anecdotes of Painting in England; with Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts; Collected by the Late Mr. George Ver Horace Walpole

Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT063191Dedication signed: Horace Walpole. With an unpaginated appendix, and index, at the end of each vol. Vol.4 bears the edition statement: The second edition with additions. Volume the fourth and last., 1782. A continuation was issued as 'A catalogue of engLondon: printed for J. Dodsley, 1782. 4v.; 8 Contributor Bio:  Walpole, Horace Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 - 2 March 1797) was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. Curator: Morley, Henry, 1822-1894