Accession number
PML 145850
Creator
Ames, Joseph, 1689-1759, collector.
Published
England, ca. 1470-1753.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from title page, with the calligraphic title written within an engraved pictorial border with a free-hand calligraphic border drawn over it in ink; frontispiece plate facing title page has name "J. Ames" (possibly English collector and antiquary Joseph Ames) inscribed in red ink within the engraved design (see PML 145850.1), which gave the title "Ames album" to the collection.
Items mounted on 43 disbound album leaves.
Individual prints comprising this collection have been cataloged separately.
Items mounted on 43 disbound album leaves.
Individual prints comprising this collection have been cataloged separately.
Description
1 album (239 items) ; 60 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Pencil inscription in an unidentified hand on front pastedown indicates that the album once contained a total of 446 items and the volume contains numerous stubs from leaves evidently removed by a former owner.
Provenance
Joseph Ames (1689-1759); purchased by Gordon N. Ray from Pickering and Chatto, 1980.
Summary
Album of 239 English, Dutch, French, and Italian political, religious, satirical, emblematical and popular woodcuts and engravings, printed broadsides, and 4 drawings executed in ink, on diverse subjects, possibly compiled by English antiquary Joseph Ames during the mid-18th century.
Binding
1/2 morocco, disbound and housed separately (see PML PML 145850A).
Classification
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