Iconology
Subtitle: or, A collection of emblematical figures; containing four hundred and twenty-four remarkable subjects, moral and instructive; in which are displayed the beauty of virtue and deformity of vice ...
By: [Selected and composed from the ... emblematical representations of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and from the compositions of Cesare Ripa] by George Richardson.
Contributors: Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?
Publisher: Printed by G. Scott
Published: 1779
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Emblems.
Notes: Added t. p. of v. 1 (dated 1778) and special t. p. of book 3 read: Iconology; or A collection of emblematical figures, moral and instructive.
"The emblematical explanations of Cav. Ripa were thought so ... ingenious, that the editor was induced to attempt an English edition."--Pref.