The gentleman's and connoisseur's dictionary of painters
Subtitle: containing a complete collection, and account, of the most distinguished artists ... from the year 1250, when the art of painting was revived by Cimabue, to the year 1767 ... 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 ... 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 ...
By: by the Rev. M. Pilkington ...
Contributors: Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802
Publisher: Printed by T. Cadell (successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand
Published: 1770
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 723
Subjects: Painters; Dictionaries
Notes: Signatures: pip4s a-cp4s dp2s B-4Yp4s [4Z]1.

Last p. blank.

"Names of the principal authors, whose works have been consulted"--P. [xii]-xiii.

Binding: sprinkled calfskin, tooled in gilt. Initial P beneath a duke's coronet centered on boards and at head of spine. Shelfmark in gilt on labels at head and foot of spine. Green ribbon place marker. Bookplate of William Arthur, 6th duke of Portland, signed: inv. W.P.B. 1900.