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RASPE, Rudolph.Erich

"A critical Essay on Oil Painting; proving that the art of painting in oil was known before the pretended discovery of Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, to which are added Theophilus de Arte Pingendi Eraclius de Artibus Romanorum and a review of Farinator's Lumen

London
The author
1781

€800 - €1.400

4°, vii, one blank, 148 pp, engr., half calf marbled boards, in the style of the period

First and only edition; an important and rare work, the last copy to appear at auction was 25 years ago in 1999. Best known as the author of the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Raspé was a friend of Horace Walpole who helped him publish the present work. According to Schmid, (The practice of painting, p. 83) Raspé closely adheres to the book and opinions of Lessing (Vom Alter der Oelmalerei, Braunschweig, 1774).

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