A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, . disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life.
George Vertue (London 1684 - London 1756)
Category
Books
Date
1745
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3122586
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi,[2],136,[2]p., plate . ill.. . 4to.. Bound with this: Vertue's 'A description of four ancient paintings' (1740). Old Wimpole pressmarks: Nn/8 and 609 [pencil]; Nn.5.27 (corrected to 24) [dark blue ink]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf, marbled paper sides. Spine with gilt rules; spine-label: 'Hollar & Virtue' [sic].
Makers and roles
George Vertue (London 1684 - London 1756)