Author:Sidney Colvin

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Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927)

See biography, indexes. 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. 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." He also wrote for Pall Mall Gazette, the Fortnightly Review, The Portfolio, Cornhill and Edinburgh.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Contributions 1.2 Edited works 1.3 Contributions to the DNB 2 Works about the author

[edit] Works

• A Word for Germany, from the English Republican (1870)
• Children in Italian and English Design (1872)
• Landor (1881) [1]
• Keats (1904) [2]
• John Keats His Life And Poetry His Friends Critics And After Fame (1917) [3]
• On concentration and suggestion in poetry (1915) [4]
• Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912 (1921) 2nd ed. (1922)

[edit] Contributions

• Atkinson's English Painters (1871)
• Atkinson's English Artists (1872)
• “Baldovinetti, Alessio,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.

[edit] 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. v.1 v.2 v.4 New Letters

Note: various renditions of these publications appear with new insertions

[edit] Contributions to the DNB

• Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray (DNB00)

[edit] Works about the author

• 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.