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A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, architecture, models, drawings, engravings, &c.
Title
A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, architecture, models, drawings, engravings, &c. / now exhibiting by the body of the artists associated for the relief of their distressed brethren, their widows and children at Mr. Moreing's great room in Maiden-Lane, Covent-Garden.
Published
London : Printed by James Harrison, opposite Stationers'-Hall, Ludgate-Street, MDCCLXV [1765]
Physical Description
12 p. ; 25 cm.
Local Notes
LWL 49 3885.2 v. 3: No. 6 in a collection of Horace Walpole's catalogues, with some annotations in his hand.
Lewis Walpole Library 75 A2 G78 760: No. 30 in a collection of catalogues formerly belonging to Algernon Graves; annotated in unidentified hand, including four additional entries on p. 4.
Notes
Price in square brackets below imprint: (Price Six-Pence.)
Signatures: [A]² B-C².
Provenance
Formerly owned by Algernon Graves with his armorial bookplate. From Reginald Grundy to Rimell to W.S. Lewis, August 1939, with the book label with crest and motto of the Grundy family annotated with the no. "2606.C".
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, T144576
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, 3885
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs - England - London - 1765.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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