The Drawings Of Flaxman In The Gallery Of University College London Autotype Reproductions From The Original Frames In Thirty-Two Plates With Descriptions And An Introductory Essay On The Life And Genius Of Flaxman By Sidney Colvin, M.A. Fellow Of Trinity College Cambridge And Slade Professor In The University
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/3439
Imprint
London: George Bell And Sons York Street Covent Garden, 1876
Physical Description
[2], 46, [64] p., 32 pl.; 560 mm.
Contents
[T.p.] - [Text] - [Plates with explan. texts].
Responsibility Note
The plates are unsigned.
The text printer is named on the verso of the title page: 'Chiswick Press: - Printed By Whittingham And Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.'
References
D. Bindman, ed., John Flaxman 1755-1826 Master of the Purest Line [exhibition catalogue] (2003); S. Symmons, Flaxman and Europe (1984); D. Irwin, John Flaxman, 1755-1826 (1979); D. Bindman, John Flaxman R.A. [Royal Academy exhibition catalogue] (1979).
On Colvin see S. Colvin, Memories and notes of persons and places, 1852-1912 (1921); E.V. Lucas, The Colvins and their friends (1928).
Summary Note
After Flaxman's death in 1826 his studio and effects were sold. Eventually several of his works were given to University College, London, where a special Flaxman Gallery was created in 1851.
The plates are photographs, pasted in.
Provenance
The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'S.A.H.', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
Binding Note
19th-century half brown morocco, green cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Drawings Of Flaxman. Colvin.' and 'R.A.'
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