A New Description Of The Pictures, Statues, Bustos, Basso Relievos, And Other Curiosities, In The Earl of Pembroke's House, At Wilton. In the Antiques of this Collection are contained the Whole of Cardinal Richelieu's, Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greatest Part of the Earl of Arundel's; besides several particular Pieces purchased at different Times.
Salisbury:: Printed By E. Easton, For R. Coward, At Wilton-House., M.DCC.LXXVIII.
Physical Description
[4], 148 p.; 196 mm. (Octavo.)
General Note
Price in square brackets: (Price Half-a-Crown.)
Contents
[T.p.] - To The Public; Advertisement to the Reader - [Text].
Responsibility Note
ESTC states that the text was written by James Kennedy (fl. 1769).
References
ESTC, T73059
J. Cornforth, 'Conversations with old heroes: the collections', in Country Life (1968 Sep. 26), p.748-51.
J. Cornforth, 'A virtuoso's gallery', in Country Life (1968 Oct. 3), p.834-41.
J. Lees-Milne, Earls of creation: five great patrons (1962), p.41-82.
A. Michaelis, Ancient marbles in Great Britain (1882).
J. Kennedy, A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton House (1769).
P. Russell, England Displayed (1769), p.75-84.
R. Cowdry, A Description of the Pictures, Satues, Busto's, Basso-Relievo's and other Curiosities ... at Wilton (1751).
C. Gambarini, Description of the Earl of Pembroke's Pictures (1731).
C. Creed, The Marble Antiquities of the Right Honble. the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton (1729 and later editions).
Summary Note
Most works of art at Wilton House had been bought by the fourth earl of Pembroke (who acquired pictures by Holbein, Titian, Giorgione, Correggio and Tintoretto and by contemporaries such as D. Mijtens, Van Dyck and Lely) and by the eighth earl (who acquired coins, sculpture and paintings by Lotto, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, L. van Leyden and the 'Wilton diptych'). At the time of the publication of this catalogue they were in the possession of the tenth earl.
Reproductions
A microfilm copy was published in 2005 (Woodbridge Conn.: Primary Source Microfilm [imprint of Thomson-Gale]).
Provenance
A preliminary leaf of the volume is inscribed in ink, 'T. Kerrich M.C.C. 1790.'
Copy Note
A preliminary leaf of the volume is inscribed in ink, '2 different accounts of Wilton'.
Paintings, European - Antiquities - Sculpture - History
Collections - Great Britain - Wiltshire - Wilton House - 18th century
Catalogues - Guidebooks - Great Britain - 18th century