A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery; : from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. in the various colllections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas; Viscount Palmerston; George Hibbert, Esq.; Dr Monro, and several other gentlemen.
Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3068838
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates ; fol. Some plates hand-coloured. Pencil code on front free endpaper verso: "U/WG"[?]. Ephemera: Clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price £14) pasted onto front pastedown. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Samuel George Smith'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; triple gilt fillet and gilt roll to form a border; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; brown spine label: 'Gainsbo=rough's Views'; rebacked (20th century), spine retained; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788), original artist John Laporte (1761 - London 1839), engraver (printmaker) Wells, William Frederick, engraver (printmaker)