print;
book-illustration;
catalogue
- Museum number
- 1911,0412.66.1-81
- Description
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Bound volume of 81 prints from 65 plates, Vol I of M H Spielmann's 'British Portrait Painting to the opening of the Nineteenth Century' (London: The Berlin Photographic Company, 1910); catalogue of various British portraits, conversation pieces, and figure studies, after Thomas Hoccleve, John Bettes, Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, George Jeamesone, Cornelius Johnson, Peter Oliver, John Hoskins, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Flatman, William Dobson, Robert Walker, Robert Fisher, Edward Bower, John Michael Wright, Mary Beale, John Riley, John Greenhill, Nathaniel Hone, John Taylor, Herbert Tuer, William Gandy, Jonathan Richardson, Charles Jervas, Thomas Gibson, William Aikman, William Hogarth, George Knapton, Thomas Hudson, Arthur Pond, William Hoare, Francis Hayman, Allan Ramsey, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Franics Cotes and Thomas Gainsborough. Bound in beige cloth with gold lettering, printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, uncut.
Photogravures
- Production date
- 1910
- Dimensions
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Height: 403 millimetres (boards)
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Width: 306 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of two; second volume: 1911,0412.67.1-72
Edition limited to 350 copies, the first fifty of which were hand-printed on Japanese vellum. This copy number fifty-two.
Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: British Portrait Painting (Vol I)
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1911,0412.66.1-81
