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Dr Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy, both in Theory and Practice

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Description: Dr Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy, both in Theory and Practice
TitleDr Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy, both in Theory and Practice
Creator nameKirby, John Joshua
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher
Creation date1754
Object typeBook/Manuscript
MaterialsUnknown
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https:/­/­collections.britishart.yale.edu/­catalog/­orbis:152573
Accession numberNC749 K55+ Oversize
SubjectsArt--Handbooks, manuals, etc.Drawing--TechniquePerspective
Status2 vols (Ipswich, 1754), 2, fig. 69, opposite p. 62
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1. Making Modern Art
Kate Retford
Description: The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
At one point in the hundreds of notebook pages that George Vertue filled with his comments on art in Britain, past and present, we find a humorous remark about the physique of the most important artists at work in early eighteenth-century London...
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Kate Retford
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2017 by Kate Retford
Related print edition pages: pp.35-61
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.2
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23268&redirecttoanchor=91568
Chapter subject tags:Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Portrait painting, British--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryVertue, George, 1684-1756Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Hamilton, Gawen, approximately 1697-1737Mercier, Philip, 1689?-1760Devis, Arthur, 1711-1787Clothing and dress--Great Britain--History--18th centuryHighmore, Joseph, 1692-1780

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