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    • Author/Creator:Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, author, artist.
    • Title:A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.
    • Publication:London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit and Humour, No. 26, Haymarket, 1824.
    • Physical Description:[16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: NC1763.A65 A4 1824 Copy 1
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: NC1763.A65 A4 1824 Copy 2
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • 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.
    • Notes:Illustrations are colored soft-ground etchings after Henry Thomas Alken.
    • 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.
    • Format:Book
    • Subjects:Art--Caricatures and cartoons.
      Painting--Anecdotes.
      Aesthetics--Anecdotes.
      Art criticism--Anecdotes.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1824.
    • Genre/Form:Soft-ground etchings--Hand-colored--1824.
      Publisher's advertisements.
    • Also listed under:McLean, T. (Thomas), publisher.