Author: LAMOTTE (Charles):
Title: An Essay upon Poetry and Painting, with Relation to the Sacred and Prophane History. With an Appendix concerning Obscenity in Writing and Painting.
Description: Dublin: Printed for Ignatius Kelly..., 1745 FIRST AND ONLY IRISH EDIT9ION. 12mo (in 6s), 162 x 90 mms., pp. [ii], 202 [203 -214 Index], recent boards, paper label on spine; occasional staining of text; with small binder's ticket on lower margin of front paste-down end-paper: "Bound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts Mary Craft Courtyard, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16." Lamotte's work was first published in London in 1730 and reprinted in 1731. It was published in Dublin - "printed for Thomas Bacon" - in 1742, and this would appear to be the same sheets with a cancel title-page, which is clearly tipped onto A2. Lamotte (?1781 - 1741) Lamotte is at pains to point out what he considers lascivious or obscene in painting, but he doesn't call for its suppression. His aesthetic principles are eclectically, but inflexibly, classical. The work also contains a ten-page comment on the origin of clocks and time-keeping. James Malek, in "Charles Lamotte's 'An Essay upon Poetry and Painting' and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1971) takes up Dryden's observation at the conclusion of his essay "Parallel betwixt Poety and Painting" (1695) to the effect that he has not exhausted what might said about the subject for an examination of Lamotte's contributions to an intersect of the rhetoric suitable for both subjects. ESTC N9429 locates copies in National Library of Ireland and Trinity College [Dublin] Library in these islands; Haverford, Princeton, Library Company of Philadelphia, University of Virginia, and California Irvine in North America.

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