[Robinson, John]:

$250 · Offered by William Reese Company

DESCRIPTION OF THE PICTURE, CHRIST HEALING THE SICK IN THE TEMPLE, PAINTED BY BENJAMIN WEST, ESQ. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY, AND PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE PENNSYLVANIA ... A detailed description and interpretation of West's painting. The frontispiece is a sketched representation of the painting, with a key to the people included in the image. John Robinson was a portrait and miniature painter in Philadelphia, where the West was being displayed, and he is the acknowledged author of a very similar pamphlet, with the same frontispiece, that was published the following year but consisting of 24pp. A quite early fine arts piece for the U.S.

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