print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1949,0124.18.1-20
- Description
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Bound volume of twenty prints, from 'The Historical Album; A Concise History of the Lives of the Most Emiment Persons with historical sketches of their times' (London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy); twenty sheets of twenty portrait heads of public figures from history, each with a biographical passage opposite. Bound in brown boards, with embossed floral decoration and gold lettering.
Etching and engraving
Sheets given the following titles:
'Judges & Lawyers'
'Ancient Philosophers'
'Scholars & Critics'
'Miscellaneous Writers'
'Fathers & Theologians'
'Prelates'
'Reformers'
'Public Benefactors'
'Historians'
'Orators, Rhetoricians & Physicians'
'Popes & Prelates'
'Emperors & Empresses - Rome, Germany, Turkey, India, & Russia'
- Production date
- 1819-1859 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 280 millimetres (volume)
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Width: 220 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Inscribed in front cover: 'Miss Croft a Reward of Merit from Mrs Shury Cmas 1859'
Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Historical Album; A Concise History of the Lives of the Most Emiment Persons with historical sketches of their times
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Associated Title: Historical Dictionary
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0124.18.1-20
