Shelfmark
MS 660
Author
Title
An account of Mr Bull's anedotes of painting - 1783. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1783.
Physical description
6 items : paper ; 24 x 19 cm.
Note
Caption title.
Note
Place of production inferred from Storer's biography. Date of production taken from text.
Note
Six sheets, five of which are folded into 2 leaves.
Note
Provides a list of the extra-illustrated material in Richard Bull's copy of Horace Walpole's 'Anecdotes of painting in England'. Lucy Peltz describes this extra-illustrated copy as now lost, but transforming a four volume work into a fourteen volume set. See Peltz, 'A friendly gathering: the social politics of presentation books and their extra-illustration in Horace Walpole's circle', Journal of the history of collections, vol. 19, no. 1 (2007), pp. 33-49.
Note
Bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
Stored in an envelope with other printed and manuscript items in a late 20th century box covered in brown leather and dark green and grey marbled paper. Made by Richard Day.
Subject
Subject
Walpole, Horace, 1717 - 1797 Anecdotes of painting in England.
Subject
Painting England History.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England
Identifier
B49662