THE ARTE OF LIMNING together with A MORE COMPENDIOUS DISCOURSE CONCERNING YE ART OF LIMNING

HILLIARD, Nicholas NORGATE, Edward ed. R.K.R. Thorntion and T.G.S. Cain

ISBN 10: 0856352942 / ISBN 13: 9780856352942

Published by Mid Northumberland Arts Group in association with Carcant New Press, Ashington, Northumberland and Manchester, 1981

About this Item

Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, as new. Decorative half-title + frontispiece + 139 (inc. prelims), 14 pp. central block of illustrations,inc. 4 pp. in colour, one being full page; this would be 'As New' but for a scatter of small tanning spots to top edge of text-block. Unclipped jacket clean and unworn bar slight hint of edge rubbing and a short nick to top front edge which I will internally close with archival tear repair tape, will add protective sleeve when ordered. This has original and parallel modernized texts. 14.5 cm x 22 cm.

Seller Inventory # 014247

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ARTE OF LIMNING together with A MORE COMPENDIOUS DISCOURSE CONCERNING YE ART OF LIMNING
• Publisher: Mid Northumberland Arts Group in association with Carcant New Press, Ashington, Northumberland and Manchester
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856352942
• ISBN 13: 9780856352942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arts & Music
  • Elizabethan literature

About this title

Synopsis

This edition has a variety of features aimed to make it useful to the scholar while remaining attractive and available to the layman. First and foremost, it provides two versions of the a complete and exact transcript, as near as typography can provide, of the manuscript with all its idiosyncrasies; facing this a modernized version with spelling and punctuation regularized. By this means the text can be read easily without compromising the accuracy and difficulty of the original. The long introduction explores the history of the 'Treatise,' the biography of its author, the historical and artistic context, and the technique of limning. The extensive notes are keyed-in to the modernized text. Last, but by no means least, Hilliard's paintings are used extensively to provide the visual counterpart to his lively prose.

About the Author

Nicholas Hilliard (1546-1618), the first major painter whose name we know, painted the minature portraits from which we recognise many of the people of the court of Elizabeth I. His technique 'limning' which utilised water-based pigments, was considered among the highest pictorial arts.