Author:Sidney Colvin

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Sidney Colvin
(1845–1927)

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Kt.; British 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, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "S. C."

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "S. C."

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "S. C."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "S. C."

Works

A Word for Germany, from the English Republican (1870)
Children in Italian and English Design (1872)
Landor (1881) IA
Keats (1904) IA
John Keats His Life And Poetry His Friends Critics And After Fame (1917) IA
On concentration and suggestion in poetry (1915) IA
Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912 (1921) Internet Archive identifier: memoriesnotesof00colv

Contributions

Atkinson's English Painters (1871)
Atkinson's English Artists (1872)
wrote for
- Pall Mall Gazette
- the Fortnightly Review
- The Portfolio
Cornhill
Edinburgh

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)
"Finiguerra, Maso," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Flaxman, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Giorgione," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Giotto," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Leonardo da Vinci," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Marcantonio," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Michelangelo," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Contributions to the DNB

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. IA 1, IA 2 IA

Note: various renditions of these publications appear with new insertions

Works about Colvin

"Colvin, Sidney," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Colvin, Sidney, D.Litt.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Colvin, Sidney," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Colvin, Sidney," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Colvin, Sir Sidney," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Colvin, Sir Sidney," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
"Obituary: Sir Sidney Colvin, art critic and friend of Stevenson," in The Times (1927)
"Colvin, Sidney," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1927, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 96 years or less. These works may 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.

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