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Creator:
Richardson, C. J. (Charles James), 1806–1871
Title(s):
Model cottage and villa : details, furniture &c. / by C.J. Richardson, MIBA.
Additional Title(s):

Title page, volume 2: Designs for villas, lodges, garden seats, etc.

Title page, volume 3: Designs for mansions, villas, and park lodges, etc.
Published/Created:
England, 1859-1869.
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations ; 45 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2024 9
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
Title from manuscript title page of volume 1, dated 1859. The title pages for volumes 2 and 3 (bound together with volume 1) are dated 1869.
Bookplate: Rupert Gunnis.
Bound in later red half leather and red cloth.
Unpublished manuscript, with approximately 90 views, elevations, and plans depicting Elizabethan or Tudor villas, cottages, and related designs by Richardson. Most of the illustrations, aside from the plans, are fully finished watercolors, captioned in graphite. Brief manuscript text is written on smaller sheets of paper, interleaved. Most of the text describes the illustrations.
Subject Terms:
Architecture, Domestic -- Great Britain -- Designs and plans.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Great Britain -- Designs and plans.
Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Drawings (visual works)
Watercolors (paintings)
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