The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters
Subtitle: containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists, who have flourished in the art of painting, at Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, and other cities of Italy; in Holland, Flanders, England, Germany or France; from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767; including above five hundred years, and the number of artists amounting to near one thousand four hundred : extracted from the most authentic writers who have treated on the subject of painting, in Latin, Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Low Dutch : to which are added, two catalogues : the one, A catalogue of the disciples of the most famous masters, for the use of those who desire to obtain a critical knowledge of the different hands and manners of the different schools : the other, A catalogue of those painters who imitated the works of the eminent masters so exactly, as to have their copies frequently mistaken for originals : the whole being digested in a more easy and instructive method than has hitherto appeared; and calculated for general entertainment and instruction, as well as for the particular use of admirers and professors of the art of painting
By: by the Rev. M. Pilkington, A.M. Vicar of Donabate and Portraine, in the Diocese of Dublin.
Contributors: Barry, James, 1741-1806.
Edition: A new edition / to which is added, A supplement containing anecdotes of the latest and most celebrated artists, including several by Lord Orford; also, Remarks on the present state of the art of painting / by James Barry ...
Series: Blake -- no. 1317
Publisher: Printed by W. and C. Spilsbury ... for J. Walker ...
Published: 1798
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 840
Subjects: Painters -- Dictionaries.
Genres: Dictionaries.
Other titles: Dictionary of painters; Pilkington's Dictionary of painters
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Press figures.

Verso of title page and p. [780] are blank.

Pages 291 and 424 misnumbered 591 and 324. Numbers 317-318 and 439-448 omitted.

This edition originally published weekly in 36 numbers from April 1, 1797 to Saturday, December 16, 1797; bound in drab bluish-grey paper wrappers. Each number has title on cover: No I-XXXVI of Pilkington's Dictionary of painters elegantly printed in quarto, and hot-pressed.

The title page dated 1798 is found in no. 36 along with additional preliminary pages (xxiii p.).

"Reflections on the present state of the art of painting in England, by James Barry ...": p. [827]-840.

Gift to Victoria University Library (nos. 3-36). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library has the individual numbers (3-36) stored together in a phase-box; lacks numbers 1 & 2.