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ALKEN, Henry.
A Touch at The Fine Arts.
Alken's satirical collection of plates illuminating the terminology of artistic criticism. For this series, Alken has titled each plate with an appropriate critical term, An Imposing Effect, A Striking Effect, A Very Warm Effect, and so on, while the plate itself provides caricatural counterpoint to the pretentiousness of the term itself.
- Published
- London: Published by Thomas McLean. [1824]
- References
- Martin Hardie, pp. 183-184 and 319; Siltzer, p. 71; Tooley 58; Bobins II 612; Not in Abbey.
- Plates
- 12
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Published by Thomas McLean. [1824]
- Ref
- 884
FIRST EDITION. Large quarto; (304 x 232 mm.). Twelve hand-colored etched plates mounted on heavy card stock, with the leaf of descriptive letterpress mounted on the facing page. Bound without the half-title, title, preface leaf, and leaf of advertisements. Bound ca. 1850 in half brown hard-grain morocco, ruled in gilt, over brown morocco-grain cloth boards. Spine ruled in blind and decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt compartments. Coloured edges. Minor wear to extremities. Each plate with small abrasion in the upper right corner where the plate number has been erased. Some minor worming in the margins of the mounts. An excellent copy. Coloured plates in order: 1. A Touch at the Fine Arts - An Imposing Effect. 2. A Touch at the Fine Arts - Unpleasant in Effect - but the keeping is good. 3. A Touch of the Fine Arts - A Moving Effect - the Execution Rapid. 4. A Touch at the Fine Arts - A Striking Effect - The handling by no means good or pleasant to the eye. 5. A Touch at The Fine Arts - All Effect - The subject is far from good but Rich. 6. A Touch at the Fine Arts - A Forcible Effect. 7. A Touch at the Fine Arts - A Sudden Effect. 8. A Touch at the Fine Arts - A Surprising Effect - but no Execution. 9. A Touch at the Fine Arts - A Very Warm Effect. 10. A Touch at the Fine Arts - A powerful Effect - but the subject is rather hurried. 11. A Touch at the Fine Arts - A Spirited Effect - but no order kept in the grouping of the Figures. 12. A Touch at the Fine Arts - A very Brilliant Effect.
