Dedicated By Permission To Her Royal Highness The Duchess Of Kent Original Sculptural Designs By Edgar George Papworth Sculpr. Executed In Rome During His Residence There As The Prize Student Of The Royal Academy In 1834, 1835, & 1836.

Edgar George Papworth Snr

RA Collection: Book

Record number

04/3864

Author

Edgar George Papworth Snr

Variant Title

Original Sculptural Designs

Imprint

Physical Description

[2] f., [25] pl.; 542 mm.

[T.p.] - Subscribers - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

No plate is signed.

No publisher or printer is named.

Summary Note

Plate [23] includes in its caption the date, 'Executed Heroick Size In 1840'. The work must have been published between 1842 (when the listed Subscriber 'Charles Barry Esqre. R.A.' became a full Member of the Academy) and 1843 (when the author presented this copy to the Royal Academy).

The plates are outline drawings. All carry captions or inscriptions within the plate, and fall into three groups, the first plate in each group carrying a collective title for that group: 'Designs By Edgar George Papworth' (pl. [1-13], chiefly showing subjects from ancient Greek and Roman mythology, but also including 'The Plague', 'The Slave', 'The Emancipated', 'The Seven Ages'); 'Monumenti' (pl. [14-20], all apparently funeral monuments); 'Sacred Subjects' (pl. [21-25])..

Provenance

Presented by the author in 1843 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, IX, 319).

Binding Note

20th-century red buckram; unlettered.

Subject

Mythology, Greek - Mythology, Roman
Christian art and symbolism
Sculpture - Monuments - Funerary sculpture - Great Britain - 19th century
Designs - Student drawings - 19th century
Pictorial works - 19th century