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Sketches of ornament

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A129

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Type of record: Book

Title: Sketches of ornament

Level: Item

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].

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