1136 Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them. John Sell Cotman.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.

Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.

London: Longman and Co., Loackington and Co.,Colnaghi and Co. et. al. 1818. Large folio, 18 7/ 8 x 13 1/4 inches (480 x 336 mm), title, 8 text pages, index, 60 etched plates. Bound in half black morocco by Batchelor (stamp on inside cover) with blue moiré paper, dry stamp on borders, gilt title, spine sunned, corners and edges bumped. Binding tight and most plates bright and clean, with occasional foxing; plate 38 is heavily stained and plate 17 has penciled annotations.
Copies can be found in the collections of the National Gallery in Washington DC and The British Museum. Armorial bookplate of Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave pasted inside front cover.
With THREE ADDITIONAL etchings and a handwritten index of the volume.
a. Church Portal, 10 x 8 inches (256 x 203 mm), full margins.
b. St. Boyne's Cross. S. E - Monaster Boyce, 1813, 10 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (275 x 183 mm), full margins.
c. The Lesser Cors - Monaster Boyce, 1813 (with a little figure of a draftsman in the background) / Paper size 10 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (266 x 181 mm)

[Lowndes II, 532].

A rich collection of architectural etchings by John Sell Cotman (1782 – 1842) who was a leading member of the Norwich School of Painters, as well as an accomplished etcher and illustrator. He moved to London in 1798 and met artists such as Peter de Wint and J.M.W. Turner; and he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1800. Turner would later support his appointment as master of landscape painting at King's College London, where he counted Dante Gabriel Rossetti among his pupils.
Provenance: Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919), economist, knighted 1909, author of Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, and editor of Palgrave's Collected Historical Works.

Condition: Very good.

Item number: 1136

Price: $2,200.00

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