Nollekens and his times: . comprehending a life of that celebrated sculptor; and memoirs of several contemporary artists, from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake. By John Thomas Smith, Keeper of the prints and drawings in the British Museum. In two volumes.
John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833)
Category
Books
Date
1828
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3065038
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.(x,424p.;vi,488p.), plate : port. ; 8vo. Bookseller's ticket on pastedown: J.H. Leake, bookseller &c. Shrewsbury. Bookseller's manuscript price notes, codes on endpaper. $zProvenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson, created Earl of Lichfield, 1831 (1795-1854); and also used by subsequent earls]. $zBinding: nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper on boards; gold and blind tooled spine; gold lettered and numbered black spine labels.
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John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833)