| By Kin Sloan. London, England: British Museum Press 2000. Fair Condition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pictorial Cover Paperback. Ex-Library. ISBN 0 7141 2624 1. 256 pages. Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters. 1600-1800. 1. Virtue, Virtuosi and Views. 2. Learning to Limn. 3. From 'Landskip' to Landscape. 4. Writing Mastes, 'Mathemats', Prospects and Antiquities. 5. Creating Compositions. 6. Amateurs at Home and abroad. 7. Muses and Sybyls. Very well illustrated with colour and b/w print reproductions. Page 215-6 has a hole in it that looks like a printers error rather than damage done by a previous owner, apart from that the book is in very good condition. |
