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Essays on the Fine Arts

Hazlitt, William, the Elder, William Carew Hazlitt · 1873 · Scanned text

169,167 words · about 11 h 51 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Authors
Hazlitt, William, the Elder, William Carew Hazlitt
Language
English
Published
1873
Length
169,167 words · about 11 h 51 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain · PD-US by publication date

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Part I. Page about 1 min
  3. Part II about 11 h 49 min
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Front matter

Ulrich Middeldorf

ESSAYS

ON

Part I. Page

On Haydon's Solomon, ..... 1

An Inquiry whether the Fine Arts are promoted by

Academies and Public Institutions, ... 4 Character of Sir Joshua Eeynolds, . . . 24 On the Catalogue Kaisonn^ of the British Institution, 40 West's Picture of Death on the Pale Horse, . . 70 On Farington's Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, . . 78 On Originality, . . . . . .120

On William's Views of Greece, . . . .141

On the Portrait of an English Lady, by Vandyck, . 145 On Lady Morgan's Life of Salvator Rosa, . . 165 On Hogarth's Marriage a-la-Mode, . . . 208 On the Fine Arts, ...... 217 viii

Contents,

PAGE

On Flaxman's Lectures on Sculpture, . . . 345 Royal Academy, . . . . . .870

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