A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Portraits In The Collection Of John, Duke Of Bedford, K.G. At Woburn Abbey. [Epigraph]

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/2890

Imprint

London:: Printed By James Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square., M.DCCC.XXXIV.

Physical Description

viii, [2], 222 p.; 254 mm. (Quarto.)

Contents

[Half-t., note, t.p.] - Introduction - Contents - [Text] - Addendum - Alphabetical Index To The Portraits; [colophon].

Summary Note

A note printed on the half-title verso states, 'Of This Catalogue, Printed For Private Distribution, Fifty Copies Only Have Been Taken.'

Provenance

A preliminary leaf is inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr A.W. Callcott' and 'From the Duke of Bedford'.

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

John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, previous owner
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA, previous owner, donor
James Moyes, printer