By RBML Staff and Meg Hixon
Title: Hogarth, William. Translated French texts, between 1761 and 1764
ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0004
Creator: Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
Extent: 1.0 Items
Date Acquired: 10/02/1980
Languages: English [eng]
This item (2 pages) contains English-language translations from a critical essay on French author Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) and from Watelet's L'Art de peindre (1760) by William Hogarth (1697-1764). The original texts appear in the Amsterdam edition of L'Art de peindre in 1761. The origin of the manuscripts was identified by University of Illinois Professor John A. Dussinger in 1984.
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Acquisition Source: C. A. Stonehill, Inc
Finding Aid Revision History: Revised by Meg Hixon, July 2016
Other Note:
Formerly cataloged as Nature of grace : a translation of the chapter and commentary on grace from the Amsterdam edition of Watelet's L'Art de peindre.
Formerly part of the Robert Wentworth Rogers Collection of Eighteenth-century English Literature.
Former shelfmark: MS Q. 701 H67d.
Former shelfmark: Q. 844W29 Oa 1761 apx.