Title: Emblems of Mortality; Representing, in Upwards of Fifty Cuts, Death Seizing all Ranks and Degrees of People; Imitated From a Painting in the Cemetery
Author: Multiple Contributors
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 88
Dimensions: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.25d
Product Weight: 0.67 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9781385874721

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT139829The preface by J.S. Hawkins. The woodcuts are by J. Bewick from Holbein. Re-issued 1810?] with the imprint: Newcastle, printed for William Charnley and the title 'The dance of death'.London: printed for T. Hodgson, 1789. 4], xxviii,51, 1]p.: ill.; 12

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