Sketches of ornament
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Sketches of ornament
Classmark: Bedford Collection A129
Creator(s): Chippendale, Thomas Junior [or The Younger] (1749-1823)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Davies, Francis Byam (1835-1854) (Former owner); Davies, Henry Fanshawe (1837-1914) (Former owner)
Publisher: published according to Act of Parliament
Publication city: London[?]
Date(s): 1779
Language: English
Size and medium: 6 unnumbered leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/723181
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019823976905181
Description
Bedford Collection copy A129 consists entirely of plates, 6 in total including the title page, all by T.Chippendale, Jnr inv et ex.
First item in a bound volume of 4 items.
Bound with: 2. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy. / London: I Taylor, 1780. 3. The young painter's assistant in the art of drawing. London: John Tinney, 1753. 4. A new book of vases. / T. Laws. London, 1773.
Indexed in: Ivan Hall, The engravings of Thomas Chippendale Junr, Furniture History (Vol. 11 1975), pp.56-58 [6 pages].
Additional description
Bound with 3 other publications in volume with spine title: Chippenda[le] Designs. Volume contents: 2. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy. / London: I Taylor, 1780. 3. The young painter's assistant in the art of drawing. London: John Tinney, 1753. 4. A new book of vases. / T. Laws. London, 1773
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A129: Photocopy of a letter from Lord Harewood, Harewood House, Leeds to John Bedford, 2 November 2000, thanking him for for lending this item and the French edition of Chippendale's Gentleman and cabinet maker's director for their Chippendale Exhibition.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A129: re-backed half calf, 19th century marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A129: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/14. Nineteenth-century MS inscription in pencil on front pastedown of volume: Francis Byam Davies [i.e. Francis Byam Davies (1835-1854), Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards, who died at Siege of Sebastopol, Crimean War aged 19, also of Elmley Castle]. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown of volume: H. F. Davies, Elmley Castle [i.e. Henry Fanshawe Davies (1837-1914), Elmley Castle, Wychavon, Hereford and Worcester; Lieutenant-General, Royal Navy and Grenadier Guards].
Access and usage
Access
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