Accession number
PML 76358
Published
London : Published ... April 1803 by P. André, Patentee, No. 5 Buckingham Street Fitzroy Square, and J. Heath, No. 15 Russel Place Fitzroy Square, [April 1803]
Credit line
Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979.
Notes
Ink additions to title page: "No 1." Published "30th" April; "Price 10/6".
Library has: Title page (76358.1) and Ser. 1: West, Benjamin, Angel of resurrection (1801) (76358.2); Porter, Robert Ker, Charge (76358.3); Stothard, Thomas, The lost apple (PML 76358.4); Warwick, Henry Richard Greville, Earl of, Landscape with old trees by water (76358.5); Cooper, Richard, Landscape witih large trees (1802) (76358.6), Corbould, Richard, Old trees with old man , a girl and a dog (1802) (76358.7) -- Ser. 2: Fuseli, Henry, Woman sitting by a window (76358.8); Hearn, Thomas, Old tree (76358.9); Barry, James, Eastern patriarch (76358.10); Barker, Thomas, of Bath, Young boy seated (76358.11); Gessner, Conrad, Cavalry charging (76358.12); Dellamotte, William Alfred, Resting men and dogs under a big tree (76358.13).
Mellon no.: L 194.65A .
The contents of these series as recorded by Man follow. Asterisks represent a Man-designated plate missing but having a substitute as listed. Collection has Man number citations pencilled on.
The first lithographic prints published in England. Among the artists represented are Henry Fuseli, Conrad Gessner, Thomas Stothard, and Benjamin West.
Title page is for the first two series of lithographs issued by André. Additional series were issued by G.J. Vollweiler, some originating from the André enterprise, in "May 1806" together with reissue of the André sets and with a new t.p. Vollweiler's t.p. was afterward altered eliminating the 1806 date as the publication of series extended into 1807 according to dates on the lithographs. At head of André's title: By His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
Library has: Title page (76358.1) and Ser. 1: West, Benjamin, Angel of resurrection (1801) (76358.2); Porter, Robert Ker, Charge (76358.3); Stothard, Thomas, The lost apple (PML 76358.4); Warwick, Henry Richard Greville, Earl of, Landscape with old trees by water (76358.5); Cooper, Richard, Landscape witih large trees (1802) (76358.6), Corbould, Richard, Old trees with old man , a girl and a dog (1802) (76358.7) -- Ser. 2: Fuseli, Henry, Woman sitting by a window (76358.8); Hearn, Thomas, Old tree (76358.9); Barry, James, Eastern patriarch (76358.10); Barker, Thomas, of Bath, Young boy seated (76358.11); Gessner, Conrad, Cavalry charging (76358.12); Dellamotte, William Alfred, Resting men and dogs under a big tree (76358.13).
Mellon no.: L 194.65A .
The contents of these series as recorded by Man follow. Asterisks represent a Man-designated plate missing but having a substitute as listed. Collection has Man number citations pencilled on.
The first lithographic prints published in England. Among the artists represented are Henry Fuseli, Conrad Gessner, Thomas Stothard, and Benjamin West.
Title page is for the first two series of lithographs issued by André. Additional series were issued by G.J. Vollweiler, some originating from the André enterprise, in "May 1806" together with reissue of the André sets and with a new t.p. Vollweiler's t.p. was afterward altered eliminating the 1806 date as the publication of series extended into 1807 according to dates on the lithographs. At head of André's title: By His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
Description
[1] leaf, 34 art prints : lithograph, b&w ; 47 x 37 cm (in 60.5 cm portfolio)
Provenance
Paul Mellon.
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