Anecdotes of painting in England; :. with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; /. and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole. ...
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797)
Category
Books
Date
Unknown
Materials
Place of origin
Twickenham
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3036259
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates :. ports. ;. 4to. Accession no. 6236.1-4. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: bookplate of Eliza Gulston. Binding: eighteenth-century English calf gilt with thin outer roll. Gilt spine with red lettering- and green numeration-piece, also two panels of a vertical design, one of an interlace and one with dove, quiver and torch. Green silk marker, yellow edges, yellow and green stone-marbled endleaves. Bound uniform with A catalogue of engravers, 1763.
Makers and roles
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717 - 1797), author