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Author/Creator:Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, author, artist.
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Title:A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.
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Publication:London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit and Humour, No. 26, Haymarket, 1824.
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Physical Description:[16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Local Notes:"Spoting, and highly amusing works and prints, of a superior class and novel kind, lately published by Thomas M'Lean ...": [1] leaf at end.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in publisher's original pink printed boards.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in publisher's original pink printed boards, with red roan (?) back and corners.
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Notes:Illustrations are colored soft-ground etchings after Henry Thomas Alken.
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Summary:"An attempt to elucidate, by graphic delineations, a variety of terms generally and perhaps exclusively made use of by artists, amateurs, connoisseurs, virtuosos, and the like ...."--Preface.
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Subjects:Art--Caricatures and cartoons.
Painting--Anecdotes.
Aesthetics--Anecdotes.
Art criticism--Anecdotes.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1824.
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Genre/Form:Soft-ground etchings--Hand-colored--1824.
Publisher's advertisements.
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Also listed under:McLean, T. (Thomas), publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/583243