Eight views, of the Mauritius : comprising the positions of the British Army, commanded by the Honble. Majr. Genl. J. Abercrombie, on the 29th. & 30th. of Novr. & 1st. of Decr. 1810. Also of the town and harbour of Port Louis. ...
Temple, Richard, active 1810
Category
Books
Date
1813
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100974
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1], 8 leaves : col. ill. (aquatints) ; obl. fol. Pencil number "262" and bookseller's pencil code "t/γ3/-" on rear pastedown. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half straight-grained brown morocco; brown cloth over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; straight-grained brown morocco title label on upper board, gilt lettered: 'Views of the Mauritius'; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Views of the Mauritius'.
Makers and roles
Temple, Richard, active 1810, original artist John Heaviside Clark (Scotland c.1770 - Edinburgh 1836), engraver (printmaker)