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A collection of prints, illustrative of English scenery / from the drawings and sketches of Gainsborough in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baronness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq. Dr Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Accession number
PML 145616
Creator
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
Published
[London] : Engraved and published by W.F. Wells, and J. Laporte, [1802-05]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Plates dated from Jan. 1, 1802 to Jan. 1, 1805.
"Printed by Watts and Bridgewater, Queen-st. Grosvenor-sq."
72 soft ground etchings after Gainsborough, 28 of them hand tinted in one or more colors with scraped highlights, with imprints and captions noting the locations of the original drawing.
Library's copy contains only 71 of the 72 plates recorded for other copies.
Description
[2] leaves, [72] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (soft ground etching) ; 33 x 42 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary 1/2 calf.
Classification
Department