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)
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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)
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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