Hogarth, William. Translated French texts, between 1761 and 1764 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Hogarth, William. Translated French texts, between 1761 and 1764

ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0004

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This item (2 pages) contains English-language translations from a critical essay on French author Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) and from Watelet's L'Art de peindre (1760) by William Hogarth (1697-1764). The original texts appear in the Amsterdam edition of L'Art de peindre in 1761. The origin of the manuscripts was identified by University of Illinois Professor John A. Dussinger in 1984.

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