Accession number:
PML 88576.1-65
Published:
[London : s.n., 1774-1822]
Description:
65 drawings : ill. (pen-and-wash drawings) ; various dimensions; smallest, 5 x 7 cm; largest, 13 x 8 cm; mats: 51 x 38 cm
Notes:
Sixty-five drawings mounted in fifteen mats.
Artist unknown.
Dated from (bookseller's?) typewritten note.
The illustrations were designed, some possibly by Darton himself, to accompany various cautionary and instructive tales for children, and published by Darton and Harvey. None of the drawings are sigend or have titles.
The drawings in mat no. 9 are tinted blue.
For a description of Darton's patterns of illustration, see Lawrence Darton's introduction.
Binding:
65 drawings matted in 15 mats, housed in a modern solander box.
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