NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824 NRA: Knight Richard Payne (1750-1824) Numismatist Antiquary MP DNB: Knight, Richard Payne (1751-1824), art collector and writer LBT ID: RiKnigh1824 VIAF ID: 14940632 LOC ID: n82067521 | B/BAP: 1751-02-11 DIED: 1824-04-23 |
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MP and writer on taste; in 1786 he published An Account of the Remains
of the Worship of Priapus for the Society of Dilettanti; he was author of The Landscape: a Didactic Poem (1794), An
Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1805) and other works. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Richard Payne Knight:
An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus: lately existing at
Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples: in two Letters, one from Sir William Hamilton, K.B. His
Majesty's Minister at the Court of Naples, to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. President of the
Royal Society, and the other from a Person residing at Isernia: to which is added, A
Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its connexion with the Mystic Theology of the
Ancients. Found 1.
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An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste. Found 1.
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Carmina Homerica: a rapsodorum interpolation. Found 3.
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The Progress of Civil Society. A Didactic Poem: in Six Books. Found 1.
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The Landscape, a Didactic Poem. In Three Books. Addressed to Uvedale Price,
Esq. Found 1.
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