Readings on the Purgatorio of Dante, chiefly based on the commentary of Benvenuto da Imola,

Frontispiece: "Dante by Giotto after a drawing ... by Baron Seymour Kirkup made before the restoration of the fresco in 1841."

Lectures on painting and design.

v.1. Origin of the art. Anatomy the basis of drawing. The skeleton. The muscles of man and quadruped. Standard figure. Composition. Colour. Ancients and moderns. Invention.--v.2. Fuzeli. Wilkie. Effect of the societies on taste. A competent tribunal. On fresco. Elgin marbles. Beauty.