Art Books

The children and the pictures

Pamela Grey

All this time Clare had been looking at the lady, and was now quite sure she didn’t like her. The wave of fear she had first experienced had receded, and she had only an overmastering inclination to b..

Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century

Laurence Binyon

Only the independent masters, therefore, are exhibited here; and from these groups of etchers several of the greatest names in Dutch art are absent. Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Vermeer of Delft, Hobbema, D..

English Folk-Song and Dance

Frank Kidson

The word “folk-song” is so elastic in definition that it has been freely used to indicate types of song and melody that greatly differ from each other. The word conveys a different signification to di..

Goya, an account of his life and works

Albert Frederick Calvert

Goya’s art would appear to be the reflection of his life. His youth was disordered and tempestuous; in the height of his success he accepted favours, but he was too conscientious an artist to repay th..

Emblems of Mortality

John S. Hawkins

The earliest Edition of the Imagines Mortis which I have as yet seen, is one printed, as appears from the Colophon at the End, by Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, in small 4to. at Lyons, in 1538: It is i..

Prints - A Brief Review of Their Technique and History

Emil H. Richter

This little book is not a compendium of the graphic arts, just an introduction. Brevity and simplicity have been aimed at, the purpose being to awaken interest and convey initial information conducive..

Early English Water-Colour Drawings of the Great Masters

A. J. Finberg

The exhibition which was opened in March of this year (1919) was neither superior nor inferior to those which had gone before, but it attracted a quite unusual amount of interest and attention. This w..

A History of Sculpture

Ernest Henry Short

This general scheme has entailed several consequences. I am conscious that I have dealt curtly with pre-Hellenic art—particularly with that of the Mycenæan age. My reason is that ivory work and goldsm..