Eighteen vases, modern & antique.
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1780 - 1789
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247563.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
12 leaves ; 8vo. Bound with 'The rudiments of ancient architecture' (London, 1789) and Wrighte's 'Grotesque architecture' (London, 1790?). Additional leaves bound at end: two pen and ink drawings of vases; three line and wash drawings of (1) a font, (2) an antique vase at Warwick Castle and (3) "Section and elevation of a wheel used by the Chinese for raising water"; manuscript explanation of the wheel, from "Monthly Mag: Aug." [date trimmed in binding]. Additional pencil drawing of a vase on plate 10. Pencil notes on front pastedown: "2 vols. in 1. 51 plates and 5 drawings."; (in a different hand, partially obscured by bookplate): "2 vols in 1 … plates …"; and (in another hand, erased): "15/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscription on title page (trimmed in binding): "John …". Binding: Late eighteenth- / early nineteenth- century half calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; gilt tooled spine.