A collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings : descriptive of the manners, customs and dresses of the Hindoos / by Balt: Solvyns.
Francois Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1799
Materials
Place of origin
Calcutta
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100973.4
Summary
Bibliographic description
Sections 11-12 ; fol. Manuscript divisional title pages for sections and manuscript captions. Pencil number "4" on front free endpaper verso. Provenance: Red morocco label on upper board, gilt lettered: 'The Right Honorable Richard Earl of Mornington, Knight of the most illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Governor General of all the British possessions in India, &c. &c. &c. 1799.'. Nineteenth?-century crest bookplate (not in Franks): 'C. A. Oldham'. 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: Late eighteenth-century full black morocco; outer border of gilt fillets (thick and thin) and gilt rolls (Greek key design); thin gilt fillets to form an inner panel; red morocco label on upper board, gilt lettered: 'The Right Honorable Richard Earl of Mornington, Knight of the most illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Governor General of all the British possessions in India, &c. &c. &c. 1799.'; sewn onto four recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Solvyns' Manners, &c. of the Hindoos Vol. IV.'; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Francois Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824), engraver (printmaker)