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A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, designs in architecture, prints, &c.
Title
A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, designs in architecture, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Royal Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain at their Academy near Exeter Exchange, Strand, April the eighteenth, 1776, the seventeenth year of exhibiting.
Published
London : Printed by order of the Society, MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description
22 p. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v. 2: No. 7 in a collection of Horace Walpole's catalogues, with notes in his hand. With notes also added by John Sheepshanks.
Notes
Vertical chain lines.
In this copy the last item on p. 18 is correctly numbered 284.
Signatures: [A]² B-E² F1.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole. Sold at the Strawberry Hill Sale, vii.149, to Smith, Lisle Street [London, 1160]; bound in four volumes by Riviere in half green morocco ca. 1850, apparently for John Sheepshanks whose bookplate is in the volumes. Sold at Sotheby's, 2 March 1891 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 826, to Harvey. Volumes 1-2, 4 were purchased by W.S. Lewis in 1925; the third volume in 1928.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T72117
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs - England - London - 1776.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Annotations (Provenance) - 19th century.
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