Accession number
PML 146512.2
Creator
Wild, Charles, 1781-1835.
Published
[London : s.n., 1826?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from portfolio; date suggested by Abbey.
Hand-colored aquatints.
Identified in some sources and contemporary reviews and advertisements as, "Twelve select examples of the ecclesiastical architecture of the Middle Ages, chiefly in France".
Exterior and interior views of Cologne, Beauvais, Rheims, Amiens, Strasburg, Chartres, St. Ouen and Rouen cathedrals.
Aquatints mounted on leaves of cardstock tipped into binding on linen stubs.
Library's copy imperfect, includes of 11 of the 12 plates in the series, lacking the plate showing the choir of the Beauvais Cathedral; lacking printed portfolio.
Hand-colored aquatints.
Identified in some sources and contemporary reviews and advertisements as, "Twelve select examples of the ecclesiastical architecture of the Middle Ages, chiefly in France".
Exterior and interior views of Cologne, Beauvais, Rheims, Amiens, Strasburg, Chartres, St. Ouen and Rouen cathedrals.
Aquatints mounted on leaves of cardstock tipped into binding on linen stubs.
Library's copy imperfect, includes of 11 of the 12 plates in the series, lacking the plate showing the choir of the Beauvais Cathedral; lacking printed portfolio.
Description
12 leaves of plates : all ill. (hand col. aquatint) ; 48 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Captions written in black ink on verso of individual plates, in some instances inscribed "C. Wild", possibly in the artist's hand.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 black morocco.
Classification
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Department