The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographana. Account of Rare and Curious Books and of the Book Sales in this Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited ... V. 1-2: Jan. 24-July 4, 1807, Band 1Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 |
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... sculpture of the Greeks , and the revival of painting in Italy . It might be conceived that a new art was followed with all the ardour of a first love ; and that the faculties of inventors were neces- sarily more vigorous and lively ...
... sculpture of the Greeks , and the revival of painting in Italy . It might be conceived that a new art was followed with all the ardour of a first love ; and that the faculties of inventors were neces- sarily more vigorous and lively ...
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... sculpture . The following is ex- tracted from Sir Joshua Reynolds's tenth discourse . The desire of transmitting to posterity the shape of modern dress must be acknowledged to be purchased at a prodigious price , even the price of every ...
... sculpture . The following is ex- tracted from Sir Joshua Reynolds's tenth discourse . The desire of transmitting to posterity the shape of modern dress must be acknowledged to be purchased at a prodigious price , even the price of every ...
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... . But I am now wan- dering from my present purpose : THE particular event , I allude to , is the erection of an original colossal spe- cimen of modern British sculpture , which was presented to Banks's Statue of Achilles . 69.
... . But I am now wan- dering from my present purpose : THE particular event , I allude to , is the erection of an original colossal spe- cimen of modern British sculpture , which was presented to Banks's Statue of Achilles . 69.
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... sculpture , which was presented to the Institution last year by the family of the artist , and is now placed in the entrance hall . Upon this subject I shall beg leave to offer a few reflections , as it is a circum- stance that seems to ...
... sculpture , which was presented to the Institution last year by the family of the artist , and is now placed in the entrance hall . Upon this subject I shall beg leave to offer a few reflections , as it is a circum- stance that seems to ...
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... sculpture , which so de- licately portrayed the divine elegance , and supple activity , of the youthful deity it was to represent , was purchased by the Empress Catherine II , of Russia , for the embellishment of a temple in her royal ...
... sculpture , which so de- licately portrayed the divine elegance , and supple activity , of the youthful deity it was to represent , was purchased by the Empress Catherine II , of Russia , for the embellishment of a temple in her royal ...
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