Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy

Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoode, Printers-Street, London.
HENRY FUSELI ESQR. R.A.
Engraved by R. W. Sievier, from a Miniature by Moses Haughton.
Published May 1, 1820, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London.

LECTURES ON PAINTING, DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY, BY HENRY FUSELI, P.P.
WITH ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS AND NOTES.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND, BOOKSELLERS TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND W. BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH. 1820.

It cannot be considered as superfluous or assuming to present the reader of the following lectures, with a succinct characteristic sketch of the principal technic instruction, ancient and modern, which we possess: I say, a sketch, for an elaborate and methodical survey, or a plan well digested and strictly followed, would demand a volume. These observations, less written for the man of letters and cultivated taste, than for the student who wishes to inform himself of the history and progress of his art, are to direct him to the sources from which my principles are deduced, to enable him, by comparing my authors with myself, to judge how far the theory which I deliver, may be depended on as genuine, or ought to be rejected as erroneous or false.