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Record Number: 16609


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Textual marginalia in pencil in French in the second half of the volume (Arreat's translation of Hirth) only.

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1892 and 13 Feb 1935

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Florence
'Il Palmerino', Maiano, near Fiesole

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Vernon Lee

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

4 Oct 1856

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

agnostic

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Italy

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Georges Hirth

Title:

Physiologie de l'art

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Paris: Felix Alcan, 1892

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

16609

Source:

Print

Author:

Lucien Arreat

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Psychologie du peintre

Place of Publication:

Paris

Date of Publication:

1892

Vol:

n/a

Page:

n/a

Additional Comments:

Second half of this rebound volume is Arreat's translation of Georges Hirth's 'Physiologie de l'art'

Citation:

Lucien Arreat, Psychologie du peintre (Paris, 1892), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=16609, accessed: 30 April 2024


Additional Comments:

'Vernon Lee' is the pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856-1935). This volume is housed in the Special Collections of the Harold Acton Library, the British Institute of Florence

   
   
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