Lot 699
PILKINGTON Matthew
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
Description
A general dictionary of painters: containing memoirs of the lives and works of the most eminent professors of the art of painting … New edition, 2 volumes, extra illustrated with some 450 engravings (mostly mounted, but with a number loose), full dark green straight grain morocco, spines decorated gilt in compartments, inner doublures, a.e.g., by De Coverly, 4to., London: McLean, 1824
Note: Containing a wide range of examples from various periods with a number culled from Bullart's Academie des sciences et des arts, and including: A print of Durer's "Melancolia" (Vol. 1 p. 282); Hemskerk's "Solomen and Sheba" (Vol. 1. p. 433); A horseman by Cuyp (Vol. 1. p. 499); Rembrandt's "Three trees" (Vol. 2 p. 230) and an aquatint etching of a design for a sundial attributed to Rysbraeck.