Description of a view of Isola Bella, the Lago Maggiore, and the surrounding country, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / painted by the propietor, Robert Burford, from drawings taken by himself, in 1835.

Robert Burford

RA Collection: Book

Record number

24/872

Author

Imprint

London: Printed by G. Nichols, [1836]

Physical Description

12 p., 1 plate (folded): illus.; 210 mm.

General Note

Folded plate entitled: A description of a view of the Lago Maggiore, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square.

Provenance

Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
Bound (11) in vol. I of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.

Binding Note

In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / I'.

Subject

Panoramas. - Isola Bella (Italy) ; Pictorial works - Isola Bella (Italy) ; Description and travel - Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)

Contributors

Mrs. Rodwell, donor
Richard Westmacott the Younger RA, previous owner
George Nichols, printer
Robert Burford, artist/designer