The copper-plate magazine; : or, A monthly treasure for the admirers of the imitative arts. In each number of which will be given, a portrait of some celebrated personage, some interesting historical subject, and some curious perspective view. / Executed by the most capital artists of Great Britain, and calculated to enrich the cabinets of the curious, or to ornament the apartments of persons of real taste.
Joseph Collyer (London 1748 – London 1827)
Category
Books
Date
1774 - 1776
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085882
Summary
Bibliographic description
1 v. ([202] leaves), plates ; 4to. Imperfect: plates dated August 1774-August 1776 only [i.e. nos. 1-25] with accompanying text. Bookseller's pencil note on front pastedown: "Fine plates 25/". Pencil sketch of urn on verso of plate of Michel de Montegne. Scraps of paper used to mark (1) engraving of "Datchet Bridge near Windsor" and (2) engraving of "North East view of Sir John Elvil's House on Englefield Green near Egham in Surry". Provenance: Manuscript inscriptions on front free endpaper: "M R - 1776" and (in a different hand): "Romaine, Trinity". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt fillets on spine; red spine label: 'Copper-plate magazine'; red sprinkled textblock edges; remnant of ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Joseph Collyer (London 1748 – London 1827), engraver (printmaker) Thomas Cook (c.1744 - 1818), engraver (printmaker) Edward Edwards (London 1738 - 1806), publisher Benjamin Green (1739-1798), engraver (printmaker) Charles Grignion the elder (London 1717 – Kentish Town 1810), engraver (printmaker) John Hall (Wivenhoe 1739 – London 1797), engraver (printmaker) Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), publisher James Roberts the elder (Devon 1725 - London 1799), engraver (printmaker) Edward Rooker (London 1724 – London 1774), engraver (printmaker) Thomas Ryder (London 1746 - 1810), engraver (printmaker) Paul Sandby, RA (Nottingham 1725 – London 1809), publisher William Sharp (London 1749 - Chiswick 1824), engraver (printmaker) William Walker (1729 - Clerkenwell 1793), engraver (printmaker) William Watts (London 1752 - Cobham 1851), engraver (printmaker) Michael Angelo Rooker (London 1743 – London 1774), artist Michael Angelo Rooker (London 1743 – London 1774), engraver (inciser)