An essay upon Poetry and Painting, With Relation to the Sacred and Profane history. With an appendix Concerning obscenity in Writing and Painting.
London.
Printed for F. Fayram...and J. Leake, 1730.
First edition.
12mo.
2], 202pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf. Lightly rubbed and marked, wear to upper corner of lower board and foot of sunned spine. Without free-endpapers, very slight loss to head of leaves B5-6, occasional light spotting.
The first edition of Church of England clergyman, Fellow of the Royal Society, and member of the Society of Antiquaries, Charles Lamotte's (d.1742) second and penultimate published work, a treatise on aesthetic principals.
Lamotte's aesthetic principals are stanchly classical. The work conveys his detest for anachronism and his firmly held belief that to properly benefit from an artwork one must be aware both of its fidelity to historical veracity. Lamotte focuses upon that which he finds lascivious or obscene in painting and literature (such as depictions of drunkenness), though intriguingly, does not proselytise nor call for the suppression of that which he deems inappropriate.
Lamotte's aesthetic principals are stanchly classical. The work conveys his detest for anachronism and his firmly held belief that to properly benefit from an artwork one must be aware both of its fidelity to historical veracity. Lamotte focuses upon that which he finds lascivious or obscene in painting and literature (such as depictions of drunkenness), though intriguingly, does not proselytise nor call for the suppression of that which he deems inappropriate.
ESTC T142577.
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 30784
