Lectures on painting
Subtitle: delivered at the Royal Academy, March, 1801
By: by Henry Fuseli, P.P. ; with additional observations and notes.
Contributors: Blake, William, 1757-1827.; Legat, Francis, 1755-1809; Sievier, Robert William, 1794-1865.; Haughton, Moses, 1734-1804; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain).
Series: Blake -- no. 722
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson ...
Published: 1801
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Painting.
Work titles: Lectures on painting. 1st ser.
Notes: Signatures: A1, 2.3, B-Up4s (±U4); [pi]p2s, a-bp4s, B-Ep4s (±E2.3), F-Op4s, Pp2s (E2.3 cancellans signed '*E2.3').

Pt. 2 omits "March, 1801" in title and has Cadell and Davies imprint.

Pt. [1] has title vignette engraved by Francis Legat, and tail-piece, engraved by William Blake (portrait of Michelangelo), both after Fuseli; frontispiece portrait to pt. 2 engraved by R.W. Sievier after Moses Haughton Sr.

A second series of lectures appeared posthumously, in 1830.

Bentley, G.E.  Blake books 459

Keynes, G.  Bibl. of Blake 122

Gift to Victoria University Library (vol. 1). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy has armorial bookplate and signature of Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
Table of contents: value: [v. 1]. First lecture. Ancient art.  Second lecture. Art of the moderns.  Third lecture. Invention; value: [v. 2]. Fourth lecture. Invention, pt. 2.  Fifth lecture. Composition, expression. Sixth lecture. Chiaroscuro.