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• Author/Creator:Burnet, John, 1784-1868.
  
• Title:Practical hints on composition in painting : illustrated by examples from the great masters of the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch schools / by John Burnet.
  
• Edition:Sixth edition.
  
• Published/Created:London : James Carpenter, 1845.
  
• Physical Description:[1], 31 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: ND1475 B8 1845+ Oversize
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: Bound in original green boards, as issued. Label mounted on front cover: Burnet on composition in painting.
  BAC: Publisher's advertisements laid in.
  
• Notes:Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick.
  Illustrations by John Burnet; after Cuyp, P. Potter, Claude, A. Ostade, Reubens, P. De Laer, Terburg, Rembrandt, Metzu, Correggio, Raffaelle, Guido, B. West, Domenichino, and D. Wilkie.
  Later published as part 2 of the author's: Treatise on painting, in four parts.
  
• Variant and related titles:Burnet on composition in painting.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Painting--Technique.
  Composition (Art)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1845.
  Etching--Specimens--1845.
  Carpenter, James--Publisher.
  Whittingham, C.--Printer.
  
• Also listed under:Cuyp, Aelbert, 1620-1691, ill.
  Potter, Paulus, 1625-1654, ill.
  Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682, ill.
  Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685, ill.
  De Laer, P., ill.
  Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, ill.
  Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.
  Correggio, 1489?-1534, ill.
  Guido, ill.
  Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir, 1577-1640, ill.
  Borch, Gerard ter, 1617-1681, ill.
  Raphael, 1483-1520, ill.
  West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, ill.
  Domenichino, 1581-1641, ill.
  Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841, ill.
  Burnet, John, 1784-1868, engraver.