A Descriptive And Historical Catalogue Of The Collection Of Pictures At Woburn Abbey. By George Scharf, F.S.A., Keeper And Secretary To The National Portrait Gallery. First Part. Portraits. For Revision.

Sir George Scharf

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/2904

Author

Imprint

London:: Printed By Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1877. [Limited to 50 Copies.]

Physical Description

2 parts in one vol.; 260 mm. (Octavo.)

General Note

Pt. I: p. [4], [1-]202. - Pt. II: p. [4], 203-336, errata slip.

Contents

Pt. I: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Busts'] - [Text] - Blank Pages For Additions In Manuscript - Index To Portraits; [colophon]. - Pt. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Raphael tapestries'] - [Text] - [Divisional t.p., 'Miniatures'] - [Text] - Index To Subjects In Part II - Alphabetical Index Of Artists, With Brief Biographical Notices, And Reference To Their Works In This Collection; [colophon] - [Slip, 'Corrigenda To Index To Portraits'].

Responsibility Note

The printers' names are repeated in the colophons and on the versos of the title-pages: 'London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Printers, Whitefriars.'

Summary Note

The title of Part II reads, 'A Descriptive And Historical Catalogue Of The Pictures At Woburn Abbey. Part II. Comprising Imaginary Subjects, landscapes, Miniatures, Drawings, And Enamels. Arranged Under The Names Of The Artists, With Biographical Notices Incorporated, And General Index. By George Scharf, F.S.A., Keeper And Secretary To The National Portrait Gallery. For Revision. London: Printed By Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. 1877. [Limited to 50 Copies.]'.

Provenance

The front pastedown is inscribed in ink, 'From the Duke of Bedford' (i.e. F.C.H. Russell, 9th Duke?). However the volume is listed as purchased for the RA Library in the RA Annual Report for 1877 (p. 47).

Binding Note

19th-century green cloth-covered boards; blue morocco spine-label lettered 'Catalogue of Portraits At Woburn Abbey'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Paintings - Portraits - History
Collections - Great Britain - Bedfordshire - Woburn Abbey - 19th century
Catalogues - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors