A Catalogue Of The Portraits Painted By Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., P.R.A. Compiled From His Autograph Memorandum Books, And From Printed Catalogues, &c. By William Cotton, Esq.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/1108

Author

Imprint

London:: Messrs. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, And Roberts, Paternoster Row;, Plymouth:: Roger Lidstone, 16, George Street. -, 1857.

Physical Description

vii, [1], 81, [3] p., frontis. (port.). illus.; 223 mm. (Octavo.)

[Frontis., t.p.] - Preface - [Text] - Addenda - [Colophon].

Responsibility Note

The frontispiece is unsigned.

The printer is named in the colophon: 'Plymouth: Printed By Roger Lidstone, 16, George Street.'

Summary Note

The frontispiece is a photographic portrait.

Provenance

Bound with a second copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and his works ... by William Cotton ... edited By John Burnet (1856); of which a preliminary leaf is inscribed in ink, 'Library of the Royal Academy presented by the Author'. According to the RA Annual Report for 1860 (p. 33), this copy was presented some time 'from July, 1859, to the close of 1860'.

Binding Note

19th-century half green morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Reynolds And His Works'. Bound with one other.

Name as Subject

Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA

Subject

Artists - Painters - Paintings - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Art history - Biography - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA
Roger Lidstone, publisher, printer
William Cotton M.A., F.S.A., previous owner?, donor?
John Burnet, previous owner?, donor?
Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, publisher