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Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788
Title(s):

A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Published/Created:
London : Engraved by W.F. Wells and J. Laporte, and published by John and Josiah Boydell, Cheapside; and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, [1819?]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2013 35
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Date of publication from Abbey.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 203
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. 37 of the 60 plates are hand-colored. Bound in contemporary gilt tooled crimson morocco.
Subject Terms:
Architecture, Domestic -- England.
Landscape painting, English -- 19th century.
Landscapes -- England.
Painting, English -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:
Soft-ground etchings -- 1819.
Soft-ground etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1819.
Contributors:
Wells, William Frederick, 1762-1836, engraver.
Laporte, John, 1761-1839, engraver.
Boydell, John, 1719-1804, publisher.
Boydell, Josiah, 1752-1817, publisher.
Shakspeare Gallery, publisher.
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