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Subject Terms Sculpture -- Early works to 1800.

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1. Coade's Gallery, or, Exhibition in artificial stone, Westminster-Bridge Road : ... of statues, vases, bustos, pedestals, and stoves, medallions and pannels in bass-relief, models from the antique, chimney pieces, monuments, fonts, coats of arms, &c. : being specimens from the manufactory, at Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow-Wall, Lambeth, opposite Whitehall and Hungerford-stairs, established in the year 1769 ...

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
xii, [13]-36 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The magazine of architecture, perspective, & sculpture : in five parts : Part the first. Geometrical, practical, & usefull [sic] problems ; for ye describing of circles, ovals, arches, groyns (Regular or rampant) & polygons, ye mouldings made use of in architecture; the handrail to stair-cases; ye wreath'd columns; ionic (capital antient & modern) volutes; & to flute columns and pilasters : Part the second. Plain & easy directions, for the construction of ye five orders of architecture , with their imposts & arches, plans, elevations & profiles, (accurately describ'd by feet, inches & parts; likewise by the customary measure of modules & minutes) frontispieces & windows; ornaments for mouldings, capitals & freezes; fretts & flowers; enrich'd pedestals for statues; compartiments [sic] for domes, soffites of arches & pavements; of the proportion and cieling [sic] of rooms; and designs of obelisks : Part the third. On the disposition & regularity of stair-cases; with several necessary improvements, wherein the symetry [sic] requir'd is preserv'd in ye steps & halfpaces, &c. also in ye rangeing [sic] ballisters & ornaments : Part the fourth. A most easy & expeditious method, to delineate in perspective, all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from ye confusion of occult lines : Part the fifth. The parts of human-body describ'd; with ye nature of motion reduc'd to geometrical rules; to which is added, a collection of ye most beautiful antique statues, with their parts describ'd, as measur'd from the originals / engraven on 96 copper plates by Benjn. Cole ; to which is annexed, an alphabetical explanation of ye terms made use of in architecture ; collected from the most approv'd authors, antient & modern, particularly, Palladio, Scamozzi & Vignola, & made a work of general use for gentlemen, architects, sculptors, painters, workmen, & all persons concern'd in building, by Edward Oakley, Architect . M. M.

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Creator:
Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:
MDCCXXX [1730]
Physical Description:
[12], 119, [1] p., XCIII leaves of plates : ill., coat of arms, diagrams, plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Ideal beauty in painting and sculpture illustrated by remarks on the antique, and the works of Raphael, and other great masters. By Lambert Hermanson Ten Kate. Translated from the French.

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Creator:
Kate, Lambert ten, 1674–1731
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
56 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Three essays: I. On dramatic composition. II. The advantages and disadvantages of foreign travel. III. And, On sculpture.

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Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 p.., [5]-59 p. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Essai sur les causes de la perfection de la sculpture antique, et sur les moyens d'y atteindre ... Par m. le chevalier Louis de Gillier ...

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Creator:
Gillier, Louis de
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
97 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects. Nor for the first time translated into English by Louisa S. Macklehose. Edited, with introd. & notes, by G. Baldwin Brown.

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Creator:
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511–1574
Date:
[1960]
Physical Description:
xxiv, 328 p. illus., ports, map. 21 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library