Grosvenor Notes 1888: an illustrated catalogue, with facsimiles of sketches by the artists / edited by Henry Blackburn

Henry Blackburn editor

RA Collection: Book

Record number

23/217

Author

Henry Blackburn, editor

Imprint

London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1888

Physical Description

62 pages : black & white illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series Title

Grosvenor Notes / Henry Blackburn (Ed).: No. XI. 1888

General Note

Bound with: The Grosvenor Gallery 1889; an illustrated catalogue of the Summer Exhibition / with notes by Henry Blackburn (1889), and The Grosvenor Gallery 1890; an illustrated catalogue of the Summer Exhibition / with notes by Henry Blackburn (1890).
The “Private View” was held on Saturday, April 28th, and the Exhibition opened to the public on Monday, April 30th, for three months.’ [Verso of title page].
The Grosvenor Gallery was an art gallery in London founded in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife the artist, novelist and poet Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy. It closed in 1890. Grosvenor Notes was published annually from 1877-1890.

References

Newall, C. (1995) The Grosvenor Gallery exhibitions: change and continuity in the Victorian art world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Casteras, S.P. and Denney, C. (eds.) (1996) The Grosvenor Gallery: a palace of art in Victorian England. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art.

Provenance

The front pastedown carries the bookplate of `Harris Free Public Reference Library, Preston.'

Binding Note

Brown half-bound leather with spine lettered in gilt: `Grosvenor Notes. 1888.' [Bound with two others].

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