Engravings from the choicest works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.
after Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Books
Date
1846
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3218272
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill., ports. ; fol. Running number: 7295. Water-staining at head and foot on most leaves; foxing on some leaves. With three additional plates at end not included in contents list: The Marquis of Londonderry (1841); The Hon. Mrs. Ashley (1842); Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester (1841). Binding: nineteenth-century full gold-tooled dark purple morocco; sewn onto five supports; triple gilt fillet framework border with foliate roll patterns; double gilt fillet along board edges; foliate roll pattern along turn-ins; gold-tooled spine divided into six panels: five panels filled with repeated floral stamps, one panel with gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Yellowwash endpapers. Gilt edges. Binder's ink-stamp on verso of front free endpaper: 'Bound by C. Lewis'.
Makers and roles
after Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist Joseph Epenetus Coombs, engraver (printmaker) Samuel Cousins (Exeter 1801 - London 1887), engraver (printmaker) William Giller (London 1805 - c.1868), engraver (printmaker)