An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects, and where their several performances are to be seen /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English Spanish |
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London :
Printed for Sam. Harding ...,
1739.
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Item Description: | Translation of: Vidas de los pintores y estatuarios eminentes espa~noles. Advertisements on last page. Includes index. |
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Physical Description: | viii, 175, [1] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo) |
Local Note: | Inscribed on t.-p.: "Chas. Peale's presented him by Mr. Dunlap April 15, 1780" "purchased by John Neagle 1826," and with the autograph of Rembrandt Peale, and other annotations. William Dunlap, who gave this book to Charles Willson Peale, was a Philadelphia print and book seller who served with Peale during the Revolution. Dunlap’s nephew, John, was the printer of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence. Charles Willson Peale gave this book to his son, Rembrandt, in 1795, the same year he painted the Staircase Group. |