Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste : in einzeln, nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Kunstwörter auf einander folgenden Artikeln abgehandelt

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Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste : in einzeln, nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Kunstwörter auf einander folgenden Artikeln abgehandelt

Leipzig : Bey M.G. Weidemanns Erben und Reich, 1771-1774

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Engraved frontispiece by Daniel Chodowiecki. Tipped onto the foredge margin of p. 899 is a folded perspective view engraved by Chodowiecki after Lambert. At p. 946 ff. are 5 woodcut plates with music, 3 of them folded and tipped onto foredge margins. Woodcut t.p. vignette, v. 1, signed by Unger. Similar vignette in v. 2 signed by Hafe. Head and tail pieces, some signed by Unger after I.W. Meil. In-text cuts, many of them musical notation.

2 v. (XII, 568; [2], 569-1287, [1] p.)

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Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801

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Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a German painter and printmaker with Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art. He was born in the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland, and in a letter “in typical Berlin humor”[citation needed] wrote, “that he moved to Berlin, Germany, which shows for sure, that he is a 'genuine Pole'.” He kept close to the Huguenot scene...