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- Creator:
- Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
- Published / Created:
- 1816.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P95 816
- Image Count:
- 8
- Description:
- Cover title. Number of part printed above title., Engraved throughout., "This work appears to have been issued in four montly parts, each of four plates between May and August 1816, before being published as a complete suite. An advertisement on the final leaf of the 1820 edition of John Cawse's 'Introduction to the art of painting' shows that the work was still being issued in four parts at this late date, at a price of three shillings sixpence per part"--Cf. British Architectural Library., Illustrations numbered in upper right corner of each plate., Price on cover: Three shillings + sixpence., Publisher;s advertisements on wrappers., BAC: British Art Center has parts 1 and 2 only. Parts 3 and 4 missing. Original printed blue paper wrappers. Stitched. Ms. ownership inscriptions of Miss Homes Cone (one dated March 24 1817) on front covers of both parts. Publisher's advertisements inside front and back covers of both parts., and Stitched as issued in the original publisher’s wrappers. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Published by R. Ackermann, 101, Strand; and may be had of all the book and printsellers in the United Kingdom. [J. Diggens, Printer, St. Ann's Lane, London.]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Architecture, Domestic, Cottages, and Landscape drawing, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Studies of cottages and rural scenery : drawn and etched in imitation of chalk
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1754 and 1789?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 Al325 754
- Image Count:
- 34
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An album of amateur etchings, mostly by Charlton Wollaston and The Hon. Booth Grey, and a few pen and gray wash landscape sketches and portraits. Many of the etchings are represented by multiple impressions and variant states, and on various paper stocks. Also mounted in the album is a copy of a bust of a man by Miss Clarke, from College-Green Worcester and dated 1789. Some later prints are mounted on 19th century photolithographs. The etchings represent country scenes -- thatched cottages, peasants, farms and farm animals, and peasants at work -- as well as views of churches, villages, ruins, and landscapes with row boats and skiffs on rivers. Also included are several engravings and prints from published works on various topics including a large engraving of Greek sculptural elements pasted on the inside of the back cover
- Alternative Title:
- Collectanea Cantab
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Caption title from p. [1]: Collectanea Cantab., Many of the sketches are signed with the monogram "CW" or the initials "BG"., Binding: 18th century limp vellum blank account book with paper printed with three columns of vertical rules. First couple of pages have been removed with stubs suggesting that the book may have been first used for accounts., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Isle of Wight., and Isle of Wight (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Cottages, Country life, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Album of prints and drawings by Charlton Wollaston, Booth Grey, and others] [graphic].
