Sir William Chambers
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Sir William Chambers
Classmark: Bedford Collection E009
Creator(s): Chambers, Sir William (1723-1796)
Additional creator(s): Snodin, Michael (Contributor); Harris, John (1931-) (Contributor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796; Chambers, William, Sir, 1726-1796; Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796; Chambers, William (Architekt)
Publisher: V & A Publications
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1996
Language: English
Size and medium: 224 pages, 8 pages of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730968
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019922677705181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-217) and index.
"This catalogue describes and illuminates the largest and most wide-ranging collection of his surviving drawings, the 863 designs and topographical drawings in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum."--Jacket.
The Drawings of Sir William Chambers and the V & A collection / John Harris, Michael Snodin and Stephen Astley -- The Franco-Italian album and its significance / Janine Barrier -- Chambers's catalogue of casts of engraved gems / Gertrud Seidmann -- Catalogue / Stephen Astley, Michael Snodin, Janine Barrier and Rosemary Battles Foy -- The Franco-Italian album -- Topographical drawings -- Identified designs -- Unidentified designs.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E009: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: OR/32.
Access and usage
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