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John Sidney Hawkins

(Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842)

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• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842: Antiquities of Westminster; the Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons). Containing 246 engravings of topographical objects, of which 122 no longer remain (Printed by T. Bensley for J.T. Smith, and sold by R. Ryan and J. Manson, 1807), also by John Thomas Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842: 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, translated from the Latin and French, intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe. (Printed for T. Hodgson, in George's-Court, St. John's-Lane, Clerkenwell, 1789), also by Hans Holbein, Jean de Vauzelles, Gilles Corrozet, Georg Aemilius, Hans Lützelburger, and John Bewick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842: 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, translated from the Latin and French : intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in diverse parts of Europe. (Printed by Robert Bassam, No. 53 St. John's-Street, West Smithfield, 1801), also by Hans Holbein, Thomas Bewick, and John Bewick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842, ed.: Emblems of Mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people, illust. by John Bewick and Hans Holbein (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842: An history of the origin and establishment of Gothic architecture : comprehending also an account, from his own writings, of Caesar Caesarianus, 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 (Printed by S. Gosnell :, 1813) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842: Ignoramus, comoedia (apud T. Paine et filium [etc.], 1787), also by George Ruggle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842: 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. (Printed by S. Gosnell for E. Williams, Eton; [etc., etc.], 1817) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842: A treatise on painting (J. Taylor, 1802), also by Leonardo da Vinci and J. F. Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842, contrib.: A Treatise on Painting, by da Vinci Leonardo, trans. by J. F. Rigaud (Gutenberg ebook)

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