Author: HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT (EDITED BY)
Title: The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical
Description: London, Seeley & Co. 1891. Full Leather, 13.75" x 10". pp. vi; 260; xxvi. Numerous illustrations, including many full-page, on heavy stock with tissue guards. Full blue leather with gilt tooling worn at edges and corners; the spine with gilt titles and tooling and with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers and page edges. The book is filled not only with art commentary but it weaves, also, history and other notes. Some contents: Wiliam Hunt; Johannes Vermmer of Delft; The Present State of the Fine Arts in France; The Masters of Wood Engraving; The Lago di Garda; The Company of St. Luke, Florence; St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits; Cleaning a Fresco. Very Good.

Keywords: Hamerton Walter Armstrong Herbert Dicksee Woodcuts Wood Engraving Compagnia St. Luca William Hunt Vermeer Fresco Conservation Wallpapers


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