Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
Title:
Old England: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities ...
Published / Created:
London, C. Knight & co., 1845.
Physical Description:
2 v. illus., col. plates. 37 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA90 K69+ Copy 1 Oversize

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA90 K69+ Copy 2 Oversize

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Friedman, J. Color printing in England, 1486-1870, 58

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 43

Selected exhibitions: "Color Printing in England, 1486-1870" (Yale Center for British Art, 20 April-25 June, 1978).

BAC: British Art Center has 2 copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey cop and is bound in green publisher's binding. Copy 2 is bound in brown publisher's binding.

BAC : Two plates signed S. Sly; one signed T. Scandrett. Wood engravings by T. Williams, E. Landells, J. Bastin, Bonner, H.L. Clarke, A.J. Mason, M.A. Williams, G. Dalziel, J.W. Whimper, M. Byfield, S. Sly, Nugent, J. Jackson, W.T. Green, Orrin Smith, E. Evans, C. Gray, and Mason Jackson; after F.W. Fairholt, Creswick, G.F. Sargent, C. Jacque, J.W. Archer, J. Cleghorn, J. Brown, R.W. Buss, W.F. Tiffin, Hogarth, and Hollar.

BAC : Initials.

BAC : "Printed by William Clowes and Sons."

Added title-pages, illustrated in colors.
Exhibition History:
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- Antiquities. | Great Britain -- History. | Great Britain -- Description and travel. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs.