Shelfmark
Cm.3.19 - Cm.3.20
Additional shelfmark
Ft.1.01 - Ft.1.03
Additional shelfmark
Ft.1.05
Author
Title
Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by .the late George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole. Vol. I [- fourth and last].
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Twickenham] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII.-MDCCLXXI. [1762-1771]
Physical description
4 v., plates : ports. ; 26 cm. (4to)
Note
Dedication signed: Horace Walpole.
Note
Advertisement in vol. 4 is dated: October 1, 1780.
Note
Vol. 3 bears the imprint: "Strawberry-Hill: printed in the year 1763".
Note
Vol. 4 bears the imprint: "Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1771" (published in 1780), and is numbered "Volume the fourth and last".
Note
A continuation was issued as 'A catalogue of engravers', 1763.
Note
Box at Cm.3.20 also includes engravings collected to extra-illustrate the work.
Citation/references note
Hazen. Strawberry Hill, 10
Citation/references note
ESTC, T71274
Citation/references note
Walpole, 14
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of Thomson-Gale, 2005. 1 reel ; 35 mm. Unit 424. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 14836, no. 01).
Provenance
[Cm.3.19 - Cm.3.20] Bookplate of Eton College Library.
Provenance
[Cm.3.19 - Cm.3.20] Given to Eton by A.M. Storer? (Recorded as Storer by Robert Birley)
Binding
[Cm.3.19 - Cm.3.20] 20th century half gold-tooled calf and marbled paper.
Binding
[Ft.1.01 - Ft.1.03] Vols 1-2: 18th-century grey paper boards; brown paper spine; ms. spine title "Anecdotes of Painting v. 1[-2]".
Binding
[Ft.1.01 - Ft.1.03] Vol. 3: 18th-century marbled paper wrappers; brown paper spine; ms. cover title "Anecdotes vol. III."
Binding
[Ft.1.05] 19th-century calf half-binding; gold fillet borders; gold-tooled spine; olive leather spine label.
Copy-specific note
[Cm.3.19 - Cm.3.20] Imperfect: vols. 1-2 only; wants vols. 3 and 4.
Copy-specific note
[Cm.3.19 - Cm.3.20] Wants many plates; all plates removed from text (Cm.3.19, 2v. in 1), but some to be found in box at Cm.3.20, including a few from Vols. 3-4.
Copy-specific note
[Ft.1.01 - Ft.1.03] Imperfect: vols.1-3 only, wanting vol. 4.
Copy-specific note
[Ft.1.01 - Ft.1.03] Extra-illustrations loosely inserted in vol. 1: etched portrait of Lady Hervey dated 1752, by H. Watelet after Cochin fils; plate III of an unidentified work showing "Rolrich [i.e. the Rollright Stones] ... in Oxfordshire", "Kets Coity House in Kent" and other ancient monuments; coins of Edward VI; loosely inserted in vol. 3: engraved portrait of Sir William Davenant by W. Faithorne after Io. Grenhill; engraved portrait of Thomas Sydenham by A. Blooteling after Maria Beale; engraved portrait of Samuel Pepys by R. White after G. Kneller.
Copy-specific note
[Ft.1.01 - Ft.1.03] Pencil inscription: Eton College Library C v 7.
Copy-specific note
[Ft.1.05] Imperfect: vol. 2 only, wanting the plates.
Copy-specific note
[Ft.1.05] Previously Fm.1.06.
Copy-specific note
[Ft.1.05] Pencil inscription: Eton College Library C v 7.
Subject
Painters Early works to 1800 England.
Subject
Artists Early works to 1800 England.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Farmer, Thomas, fl. 1762 - 1763 printer.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--place
England Twickenham.
Identifier
B14546