[Drawings of monastic seals].
Bartholomew Howlett (Louth 1767 – Newington 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1823 - 1825
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085298.16
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 16 : all ill. ; fol. Pencil note at foot of leaf [3]: "not in Cat." Pencil numbers on folios (trimmed in binding). Provenance: 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 green morocco; gilt fillets and roll to form an outer border; recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spine; red spine label: 'Nottinghams illustratio / Drawings of ancient seals'; double gilt fillet on board edges; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpapers verso: 'Bound by J. Mackenzie'.
Makers and roles
Bartholomew Howlett (Louth 1767 – Newington 1827), artist