Drawings of vases and ornamental china forming part of the collection of the late Josiah Wedgwood Esqre. of Maer Hall, Staffordshire.
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1847
Materials
Place of origin
South Lambeth
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124679
Summary
Bibliographic description
[87] leaves ; fol. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "87 Original Designs". Pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: at head of page: "Table. 4. NL / Vol. 15. p. 327."; at foot of page: "Remains"[?] and "W". Additional erased pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Drawings … instead of any date"[?]. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) typescript list of drawings (partial); (2) typescript catalogue card; (3) typescript description of this item. Provenance: Nineteenth-century crest bookplate (Franks 1952): 'Henry B.H. Beaufoy, F.R.S.'. 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: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; spine gilt tooled, lettered direct: 'Collection of vases &c'; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.