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SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL PICTURE-GALLERIES IN ENGLAND WITH A CRITICISM
ON ‘MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE’

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

_Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England. With a Criticism on ‘Marriage a-la-mode,’_ appeared in a small 8vo. volume (6½ in. × 4 in.) in 1824, ‘Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet-Street, and 13, Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall.’ The last page bears advertisements of the _Characters of Shakspeare’s Plays_, _Lectures on the English Poets_, and _Lectures on the English Comic Writers_. The printer’s name, given behind the half-title, is ‘T. Green, 76 Fleet-street.’

Four pages of Taylor & Hessey’s announcements (‘Booksellers to H.R.H. the Prince Leopold’) are bound up with the volume.

The present text is that of the 1824 volume.

The _Sketches_ formed part of the two volumes of ‘Criticisms on Art,’ collected and edited by his son in 1843–4, and of the one volume of ‘Essays on the Fine Arts,’ edited by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in 1873.

ADVERTISEMENT

It is the object of the following little work to give an account of the principal Picture-Galleries in this country, and to describe the feelings which they naturally excite in the mind of a lover of art. Almost all those of any importance have been regularly gone through. One or two, that still remain unnoticed, may be added to our _catalogue raisonnée_ at a future opportunity. It may not be improper to mention here that Mr. Angerstein’s pictures have been lately purchased for the commencement of a National Gallery, but are still to be seen in their old places on the walls of his house.

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Mr. Angerstein’s Collection 7

Dulwich Gallery 17

The Marquis of Stafford’s Gallery 27

Pictures at Windsor Castle 36

Pictures at Hampton Court 42

Lord Grosvenor’s Collection 49

Pictures at Wilton and Stourhead 55

Pictures at Burleigh House 62

Pictures at Oxford and Blenheim 69