Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842
Hawkins, John Sidney
John Sidney Hawkins English antiquarian
Hawkins, John Sidney 1757-1842
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Hawkins, John Sidney ‡d 1758-1842
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- 500 1 _ ‡a Hawkins, John ‡d 1719-1789
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Works
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22 Instrumental pieces | |
Antiquities of Westminster : the old palace; St. Stephen's Chapel (now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, of which one hundred and twenty-two no longer remain. | |
Dance of Death. | |
Danza della morte. | |
Emblems of mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people; imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland: with an apostrophe to each, tr. from the Latin and French ... to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject ... | |
An history of the origin and establishment of Gothic architecture; comprehending also an account, from his own writings, of Cæsar Cæsarianus, the first professed commentator on Vitruvius, and of his translation of that author; an investigation of the principles and proportions of that style of architecture called the Gothic; and an inquiry into the mode of painting upon and staining glass, as practiced in the ecclesiastical structures of the middle ages. | |
Ignoramus : comoedia | |
Imagines mortis | |
An inquiry into the nature and history of Greek and Latin poetry; more particularly of the dramatic species: tending to ascertain the laws of comic metre in both those languages; to show, I. that poetical licences have no real existence, but are mere corruptions; II. that the verses of Plautus, Terence, Pindar, and Horace, are in many instances erroneously regulated; and to suggest a more rational and musical division of the verses. | |
Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, an account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last one the walls of the present House of Commons. : Including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the city of Westminster, and the place and other buildings there, and the principles and history of painting and gothic architecture. By John Sidney Hawkins, Esq.F.A.S. The plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot | |
Trattato della pittura | |
A treatise on painting | |
[without title] |