Lectures on Painting delivered at the Royal Academy
1866, four lecture by Henry Nelson O'Neil
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First edition. Hardback, bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to spine and gilt central decoration to upper board. Bevelled edges. 20.5 × 12.5cm, xi + 140pp
A series of lectures by Victorian painter Henry Nelson O'Neil, a member of The Clique and a virulent critic of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. The lectures are: 1. On the Character of Nature in General, and on the Mission of Art, 2. On Portraiture, Domestic and Historical Subjects, and on the Causes of the Decline in Art, 3. On Poetical and Religious Subjects, 4. General Advice to Students; and an appendix 'On the Value of Portraits to Posterity'.
Condition
This copy is in good condition for age. There is some rubbing and dulling to the green cloth binding, and spotted foxing to the page edges, heaviest along the top edge. There is minor spotted foxing to the margins but the main body of text is clean and the binding secure, with this copy remaining in strong readable condition. Previous owner's calling card pasted in to the front pastedown.
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£40.00
