Printed Book 'Daedalus ...', by Edward Falkener, Containing Photographs (Albumen Prints), London, 1860 | |
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| Inventory Number: | 13197 |
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| Persons: | Edward Falkener |
| Date Created: | 1860 |
| Place Created: | London England United Kingdom Europe |
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| Brief Description: | Edward Falkener, Daedalus; or, The Causes and Principles of the Excellence of Greek Sculpture (London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1860), illustrated with 8 albumen prints together with chromolithographs and in-text woodcuts. Each photograph has a tissue protector. The photographer is not named. The thesis of the book is that classical Greek sculpture was greatly superior to modern (19th-century) sculpture, to which argument the realism of photographic illustrations was evidently relevant (though the frontispiece is a photographic copy of a modern drawing by the author). For fuller list of contents see narratives. |
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| Provenance: | Presented by John L. Wilson in 2011. |
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Paper Card Cloth |
Narratives | |
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