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Nollekens and his times: comprehending a life of that celebrated sculptor; and memoirs of several contemporary artists, from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake. By John Thomas Smith, keeper of the prints and drawings in the British Museum. In two volumes (Vol 2)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B346

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Type of record: Book

Title: Nollekens and his times: comprehending a life of that celebrated sculptor; and memoirs of several contemporary artists, from the time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake. By John Thomas Smith, keeper of the prints and drawings in the British Museum. In two volumes (Vol 2)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B346

Creator(s): Smith, John Thomas (1766-1833)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823

Publisher: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1828

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 v

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729695

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019897065405181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fllet Street.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B346 (vol 1): loose excerpt from Christie's Review of the season, 1979, page 56, showing an image of a portrait of Joseph Nollekens by John Francis Rigaud, sold by Christie's London in 1979.

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B346: modern [20th/21st century] half green cloth, green decorated paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B346 (vols): From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: BG/32 (2 vols).

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