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Title: Lectures on sculpture, as delivered before the president and members of the Royal Academy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Flaxman, John, 1755-1826 Westmacott, Richard, Sir
Subjects: Banks, Thomas, 1735-1805 Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822 Sculpture
Publisher: London: Bell & Daldy
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ish and Foreign Life. Twenty beau-tiful Engravings. Hunts (Leigh) Book for a Corner. Eighty extremely beautiful Engravings.India, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, from the Earliest Times to thePresent. Upwards of 100 fine Engravingson Wood, and a Map. Jesses Anecdotes of Dogs. New Edi-tion, with large additions. Numerous fineWoodcuts after Harvey, Bewick, and others* ; or, with the addition of 34 highly-finished Steel Engravings afterCooper, Landseer, &c. Is. 6d. Kittos Scripture Lands and Biblical Atlas. 24 Maps, beautijully engraved onSteel, with a Consulting Index. ; or, with the maps coloured, Is. 6d. Xrummachers Parables. Translated from the German. Forty Illustrations byClayton, engraved by Datziel.Lindsays (Lord) Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land. New Eoition,enlarged. Thirty-six beautiful Engrav-ings, and 2 Maps. Lodges Portraits of Illustrious Per-sonages of Great Britain, with Memoirs.Two Hundred and Forty Portraits, beau-tifully engraved on Steel. 8 vols.
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LECTURES ON SCULPTURE, AS DELIVERED BEFORE THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THEROYAL ACADEMY. BY JOHN FLAXMAN, ESQ., E.A., PROFESSOR OF SCULPTURE IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF GREAT BRITAIN,MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIES OF ST. LUKE, ROME,FLORENCE, CARRARA, ETC. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, AND TWO ADDRESSES TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY,ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS BANKS, IN 1805, AND OF ANTONIO CANOVA,IN 1822, AND AN ADDRESS ON THE DEATH OF FLAXMAN,BY SIR RICHARD WESTMACOTT, R.A. WITH FIFTY-THREE PLATES. NEW EDITION. LONDON: BELL & DALDY, 6, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN,AND 186, FLEET STREET.1865. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREETAND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS. PAGE Memoir of the Author ....... 1 Address . . 17 Introduction 19 Lecture I. English Sculpture 32 II. Egyptian Sculpture .... 54 III. Grecian Sculpture 78 IV. Science 101 V. Beauty . 125 VI. Composition 143 „ VII. Style . . . . .168 „ VIII. Drapery .198 IX. Ancient Art . 215 X. Modern Sculpture 240 Address on the Death of Thomlecturesonsculpt00flax_0

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