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Paul Sandby
Sketches taken at print sales
[London] : Published Feby the 1st 1798 by Sylvester Harding 127 Pall Mall, [1798].
etching with stipple
image: 200 x 307 mm; sheet: 233 x 362 mm
Peel 2311
Notes
Title and imprint from a lettered impression described in the British Museum online catalog (item no. 1876,1209.612).
"The portrait heads are based on thumbnail drawings made by Paul Sandby in the margins of print sale catalogues of the 1780s, now in an album in the Royal Library. They are described by A.P. Oppé in "The Drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby at Windsor Castle" (Phaidon, 1947), pp. 83-85."--British Museum online catalog.
Library's copy is without letters; trimmed to plate mark.
"The portrait heads are based on thumbnail drawings made by Paul Sandby in the margins of print sale catalogues of the 1780s, now in an album in the Royal Library. They are described by A.P. Oppé in "The Drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby at Windsor Castle" (Phaidon, 1947), pp. 83-85."--British Museum online catalog.
Library's copy is without letters; trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Portrait heads of fifty-five men, mostly in profile, identified elsewhere as portraits of various print sellers, collectors, artists, etc., sketched by Paul Sandby while attending print sales in London.
Associated names
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, after.
Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Bibliography
The drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby in the collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle / A.P. Oppé . Oxford : Phaidon Press, 1947.
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