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Johann Joachim Winkelman : Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters'

William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman on the study of the Antique, in Painting and Sculpture ... His Works are unknown to me, except a short treatise entitled Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters. A translation of this is all I have read having met with it the other day upon a Stal[l] at Penrith ... This Book of mine was printed at Glasgow 1766.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

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