Woodburn's gallery of rare portraits; consisting of original plates, by Cecil, Delaram, Droeshout, Elstracke, Faithorne, Loggan, Pass, Payne, Vertue, Vandergucht, White, &c. &c. &c. With fac-simile copies from the rarest and most curious portraits, illustrative of Granger's Biographical history of England, Clarendon's History of the rebellion, Burnet's History of his own time, Pennant's London, &c. &c. &c. Containing two hundred portraits, of persons celebrated for their diplomatic services, military or naval atchievements, literary acquirements, eccentric habits, or some peculiar feature in their lives deserving the notice of the historian and biographer; particularly the very extraodinary and unique equestrian set of plates in the illustrated Clarendon, belonging to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K.G. with others from the most remarkable and singular prints, in the possession of different noblemen and gentlemen, celebrated for their collection of rare portraits.
Samuel Woodburn (1780 - 1853)
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
NT 3196791
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ports. ; 4to. Provenance: nineteenth-century seal bookplate: Farnborough Library ; small personal label added with initials: C.W.H. [i.e. Charles William Holbech (1816-1901)]. Binding: nineteenth-century gained calf; gilt tooled chevron; blind roll border; five false bands; gilt tooled and lettered spine: Woodburn Rare portraits ...
Makers and roles
Samuel Woodburn (1780 - 1853) John M'Creery (fl.1797-1828) James Granger (1723-1776) Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury.