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Bonington album [album].

Accession number
PML 140269
Creator
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801-1828.
Published
1824-1833.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Individual prints in this album have been cataloged separately (PML 140269.1-94).
Description
1 album (94 prints) ; 56 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Napoleon III; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Folio album of 94 mounted lithographs, aquatints, mezzotints, steel engravings, and etchings by and after R.P. Bonington, compiled by London publisher J. Carpenter. Among the assembled plates are 3 published suites of prints, including Carpenter's A series of subjects from the works of the late R.P. Bonington ... London : J. Carpenter & Son, [1830], with frontispiece portrait, t.p., and 20 lithographs after Bonington; lithographic t.p. and 9 plates comprising Restes et fragmens [sic] d'architecture du moyen age [Paris, 1824]; and Colnaghi's 1829 reissue of Bonington's 13 plates originally created for F.-A. Pernot's Vues pittoresques de l'Ecosse, published in 1826. Individual plates include 4 mezzotints by S.W. Reynolds; 8 aquatints of coasts and river scenes, chiefly in Normandy; 2 early states of Bonington's completed etching "Bologna"; and 45 other lithographic and intaglio prints after Bonington, many of them proof or early states before letters.
Binding
1/2 brown morocco.
Classification
Department