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The life and studies of Benjamin West, Esq., president of the Royal Academy of London, prior to his arrival in England : compiled from materials furnished by himself

by: Galt, John, 1779-1839; Fry, William Thomas, 1789-1843

Publication date: 1817

Topics: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, Painters

Publisher: London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, and T. and G. Underwood, Fleet Street

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Pt. I previously published by Cadell and Davies in London, and by Moses Thomas in Philadelphia, both in 1816

Part II is 1st ed. and has title: The life and works of Benjamin West, Esq., president of the Royal Academy of London, subquent to his arrival in this country (London : Cadell and Davies ; Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1820)

Both pts. printed in London, pt. [I] by Nichols, Son, and Bentley and pt. II by A. and R. Spottiswoode

Frontispiece port. in pt. [I] engraved by W.T. Fry after a self-portrait by West

Pagination, pt. [I]: xii, 160 p., [1] leaf of plates ; pt. II: xv, [1], 251, [1] p. First leaf of pt. [I] blank

Final p. of pt. II bears Cadell and Davies' advertisements

Getty copy has signature of W. Webb, and printed label of Ulrich Middeldorf