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A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality
Title
A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality [graphic].
Production
[England], [1774?]
Physical Description
2 v. : etchings, engravings, drawings ; binding 60 x 48 cm
Notes
Title from item.
Bound in red morocco, gilt, with Horace Walpole's coat of arms on sides. Bookplate of John Waldie, Hendersyde.
With three additional title pages, formerly thought to have been printed at Strawberry Hill Press: Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron, and second wife of Henry Harcourt, fourth Earl of Carlisle; Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick; Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham, eldest son of Simon Earl of Harcourt.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering, £16.10.0 [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. Sotheby's, 28 October 1942 (Miscellaneous Sale), to Maggs for W.S. Lewis, £92.
Summary
Volume of etchings, engravings, and four drawings by amateur artists, collected and heavily annotated by Horace Walpole and assembled and bound by him around 1774. Artists included are: C.W. Bampfylde, Lady Beaumont, Miss C.S. Blake, the Earl of Buchan, the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Richard Byron, Emma Crewe, Lady Cunynghame, the Countess of Drogheda, Lord Grantham, Eliza Gulston, E. Haistwell, Sir William Hamilton, Mary Hartley, Georgina Keate, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, the Duchess of Newcastle, Viscountess of Polwarth, Sir Thomas Reeve, Catherine St. Aubyn, the Earl of Sunderland, J. Tobin, Caroline Yorke (engravings from drawings by her mother Mrs. Agneta Yorke), and others; some of the engravings are after the work of Lavinia Countess Spencer and Lady Diana Beauclerk.
Variant and related titles
Etchings by Isabella Byron, daughter of William Lord Byron
Etchings by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, eldest daughter of Francis Earl of Brooke and Warwick
Etchings by George Simon Harcourt Viscount Nuneham
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3588
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Landscapes (Representations)
Seascapes.
Views.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Drawings.
Engravings.
Etchings.
Amateur works.
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