A catalogue of the paintings, drawings, sculptures, architecture, statuary, engravings, &c. &c. / now exhibiting by the Free and Independent Artists of Great-Britain for the benefit of their distressed brethren at the great exhibition-room in Maiden-Lane, Covent-Garden, and in the Strand.

[London] : Printed (by the order of the Committee) for the Society by Wm. Prat, New-Round_Court, Strand, MDCCLXVIII [1768]

[2], 3-10, [1] p. ; 25 cm.

Lews Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v. 3: No. 11 in a bound collection of catalogues owned by Horace Walpole, with his annotations and contemporary newspaper clippings related to the exhibition mounted on final blank.

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.

English

June 01, 2002

English short title catalogue, T71801

Free Society of Artists (London, England) > Exhibitions.