Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting

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Illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art. London : B. B. King, [1840]. Third edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (stained, wear to corners and head and foot of spine), presentation inscription to front free endpaper Alfred Large from James Hawkins August 26, 1853 , frontispiece colour wheel chart, tissue guard (torn), illustrated title page, printed title page; eight aquatint plates, six with original hand-colouring in an artistic manner; pencilled notes re. the colouring in the margins of the plates; a good copy. Very interesting and uncommon manual on the use of colour in landscape painting. A review in The Athenaeum , No. 321, Saturday 21 December 1833, page 870 states: It is impossible to describe this work: the prose instructions are illustrated by examples from the pencil and both seem judicious. All who desire to understand landscape as well as those who wish to paint should consult this work. We have not Burnet s* work at hand, otherwise we might have been tempted to compare the opinions and directions of the two artists. Phillips is clear and simple: Burnet, as far as we recollect, is equally clear and simple but more scientific.

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