Nollekens and his times : and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubiliac Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli Flaxman and Blake / by John Thomas Smith … ; edited and annotated by Wilfred Whitten ; with eighty-five illustrations in two volumes ...
John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833)
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101649.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's orange cloth; triple dark brown fillet (one thick and two thin) to form an outer border on upper board; dark brown lettering on upper board; gilt lettering on spine; blue top edge.
Makers and roles
John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833), author Wilfred Whitten (1864 - 1942), editor