Author: Arsène Alexandre; Walter Shaw Sparrow
Title: Jean-Dominique Ingres: Master of Pure Draughtsmanship
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. Cloth. A smart, heavily illustrated work on the life and career of French draughtsman and artist Jean-Dominique Ingres. Originally written by Arsène Alexandre and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow. A fascinating biographical work on the life and career of French draughtsman and artist, Jean-Dominique Ingres. Jean-Dominique Ingres was a French neoclassical painter during the early nineteenth century, whose portraits are often recognised as his best works. Written by Arsène Alexandre, and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow. Including twenty-four tipped-in plates in Rembrandt photogravure and monograph. Collated and complete. Previously housed at the St. Augustine's Abbey Library, with the bookplate to the front pastedown and the stamp to the front free-endpaper and title page. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with some general shelf wear to the boards and rubbing to the joints. Some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. St. Augustine's Abbey bookplate to the front pastedown and stamp to the front free-endpaper and title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages contain the odd instance of scattered spots, particularly to the tissue guards. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: jean-dominique ingres draughtsmanship british history monographs draughtsmanship Not Stated


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