Author:Sidney Colvin

←Author Index: Co

Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. art and literary scholar and museum administrator; Slade Professor of Fine Art, Cambridge; director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Keeper of the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum; confidante and correspondent of Robert Louis Stevenson This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901. Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "S. C." This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "S. C." Also wrote for Pall Mall Gazette, the Fortnightly Review, The Portfolio, Cornhill and Edinburgh.

Sir Sidney Colvin

Works

• A Word for Germany, from the English Republican (1870)
• Children in Italian and English Design (1872)
• Landor (1881) (External scan)
• Keats (1904) (External scan)
• John Keats His Life And Poetry His Friends Critics And After Fame (1917) (External scan)
• On concentration and suggestion in poetry (1915) (External scan)
• Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912 (1921) 2nd ed. (1922)

Contributions

• Atkinson's English Painters (1871)
• Atkinson's English Artists (1872)

Contributions to EB1911

• “Art” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Baldovinetti, Alessio” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Botticelli, Sandro” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Dürer, Albrecht” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Fine Arts” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Flaxman, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Giotto” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Leonardo da Vinci” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Michelangelo” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Contributions to the DNB

• Flaxman, John
• Keats, John
• Stevenson, Robert Louis
• Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray (DNB01)

Edited works

• A Florentine Picture Chronicle (1898)
• Drawings By Old Masters At Oxford (1902-08)
• Early Engraving And Engravers In England (1905)
• The letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (1912) in 4 vols. {{ext scan link|http://www.archive.org/details/lettersofrobertl00stevuoft v.1] v.2 v.4 New Letters

Note: various renditions of these publications appear with new insertions

Works about Colvin

• “Colvin, Sidney,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Colvin, Sidney” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Colvin, Sidney” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Colvin, Sir Sidney,” Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), 1922.
• “Colvin, Sir Sidney,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.
• Obituary: Sir Sidney Colvin, art critic and friend of Stevenson in The Times

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1927, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.