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A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, prints, &c.
Title
A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, prints, &c. / now exhibiting by the Free Society of Artists associated for the relief of their distressed and decayed brethren, their widows and children at the great room in Pall-Mall, being the ninth year of their exhibition.
Published
[London] : Printed for the Society, by James Harrison, opposite Stationers'-Hall, MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description
16 p. ; 25 cm.
Local Notes
Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v. 3: No. 9 bound with Horace Walpole's catalogues and annotated by both him; with additional annotations by John Sheepshanks.
Notes
Vertical chain lines.
Nine entries on p. [3.] Last entry on p.16 is "No. 259 From a cast from the Venus of Medicis." Followed by "Finis."
Variant of ESTC T71805.
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
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, 3885
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs - England - London - 1768.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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