A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
- Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
- Published / Created
- [1774?]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk
- Description
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Title from item.
Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde.
With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt. - Provenance
- Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering, £16.10.0 [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. Sotheby's, 28 October 1942 (Miscellaneous Sale), to Maggs for W.S. Lewis, £92.
- Extent
- 2 v. : binding 60 x 48 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3588 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Portrait prints
Landscapes (Representations)
Seascapes
Views
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Drawings
Engravings
Etchings
Amateur works - Material
- etchings, engravings, drawings ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic)
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Artists, British
Landscapes - Subjects
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Artists, British
Landscapes > Great Britain > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
18th century
Waldie, John, 1781-1865? > Bookplate
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 1763532
- Object ID (OID)
- 16024507
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