98b. Pilkington, Matthew.
Vol. I. A GENERAL / DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS; / CONTAINING
/ MEMOIRS / OF / THE LIVES AND WORKS / OF
THE MOST EMINENT / Professors of the Art of Painting, / FROM
ITS REVIVAL, BY CIMABUE, / IN THE YEAR 1250, / TO THE
PRESENT TIME. / BY MATTHEW PILKINGTON, A. M. / A
NEW EDITION, / REVISED AND CORRECTED THROUGHOUT,
WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, / PARTICULARLY OF
THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS / OF THE BRITISH
SCHOOL. / -Reperire, apta atque reperta docendum / Digerere, atque
suo quaeque ordine ritè locare, / Durus uterque Labor. VIDA, Lib. 2.
Poetic. / Ut Plurimis prosimus, enitimur. CICERO. / IN TWO VOLUMES.
/ VOL. I. / London: / PRINTED FOR THOMAS M'LEAN,
26 HAYMARKET. / 1824.
8vo. Half title ([i]); title page ([iii]); dedication ([v]); editor's preface
([vii]-xvii); bibliography ([xix]-xxvii); glossary ([xxix]-xxxvi); text
([1]-543).
Vol. II. A GENERAL / DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS; / . . . /
VOL. II. / . . .
8vo. Half title (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); text ([1]-533); supplement
([535]-68).
For information about Pilkington, see No. 98a. The editor of this edition
takes a dim view of English painting during the third quarter of the
eighteenth century when he says: "When this Dictionary was first
undertaken, there existed nothing of the kind in our language; nor
were there any helps for such a compilation to be obtained, except in
foreign tongues, the Art of Painting being at that time as low as it well
could be in this country" (I, [vii]).
This was the edition revised and corrected by Watkins and the one
supplied to the University despite Jefferson's order for the 1810 edition.
The set originally received has not survived, but a duplicate set has
been recently acquired, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation.
U. Va.
*ND35.P6.1824
