Conversation pieces : A survey of English domestic portraits and their painters by Sacheverell Sitwell. With notes on the illustrations by Michael Sevier.
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988)
Category
Books
Date
1936
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223080
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 119, [1], 31, [1] p., plates : ill. (some col.); 26cm. Loosely inserted after plate no. 95 is postcard addressed to "Dear Frederika" from "Robert", dated 7.12.85. Provenance: Christmas card pasted on to upper flyleaf, inscribed "with love from Shevy Xmas 1936". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full red cloth, gilt illustrative centre-piece, gilt lettering on spine. Red-top.
Makers and roles
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988) Michel Sevier (b.1886)