Description of a view of the great temple of Karnak and the surrounding city of Thebes, now exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square / painted by the proprietor, Robert Burford, from drawings taken by Mr F. Catherwood, Architect, in 1833.

Robert Burford

RA Collection: Book

Record number

24/874

Author

Imprint

London: Printed by G. Nichols, [1835]

Physical Description

16 p., 1 plate (folded): illus.; 201 mm.

General Note

Folded plate entitled: A description of a view of Thebes, 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 (13) 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 - Thebes (Greece) Description and travel - Thebes (Greece) Pictorial works - Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)

Contributors

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