The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Volume 2: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, a Journey to Flanders and Holland (Now First Published), and His Commen

by Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray

Book Overview

This two-volume posthumous edition of the writings on art of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), one of the greatest of eighteenth-century artists and the first president of the Royal Academy, was published in 1797. Volume 2 contains his previously unpublished Journey to Flanders and Holland, which describes and comments on the paintings Reynolds examined on a two-month tour in Europe in 1781. (He visited galleries in D sseldorf, Cologne and Aachen as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108069029
• ISBN13: 9781108069021
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"