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A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, engravings, &c.
Title
A catalogue of the paintings, sculptures, designs in architecture, models, drawings, engravings, &c. / now exhibiting by the Society of Artists associated for the relief of their distressed brethren, their widows and children, at Mr. Christie's new great room, next Cumberland House, Pall-Mall, being the thirteenth year of their exhibition.
Published
[London] : Printed for the Society by Mary Harrison, opposite Stationers'-Hall, MDCCXXII [1772]
Physical Description
15, [1] p. ; 25 cm.
Local Notes
Lewis Walpole Library 49 3885.2 v. 3: No. 15 in a bound collection of catalogues owned by Horace Walpole, with his annotations.
Notes
Motto "Unanimity" on t.p.
Includes on p. [16]: Explanation of the picture of the establishment of the Academy of Arts ... 1769 ...
Variant of ESTC T71809. Entries nos. 223-243 on p. 15.
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
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs - England - London - 1772.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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