Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841
Title:
The Wilkie gallery : a selection of the best pictures of the late Sir David Wilkie, R.A., including his Spanish and Oriental sketches, with notices biographical and critical.
Alternate Title(s):
Wilkie gallery, with biographical & critical notices
Published / Created:
London ; New York : George Virtue [1848-1850]
Physical Description:
[4], 93, [80] pages, [67] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND497.W44 W44 1848+ Copy 1 Oversize

Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND497.W44 W44 1848+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND497.W44 W44 1848+ Copy 3 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engravings by John Cousen, Arthur Willmore, George Greatbach, William Greatbach, Charles William Sharpe, G.A. Periam, Edward Smith, James Charles Armytage, J. Thomson, Peter Lightfoot, James Mitchell, T.W. Knight, T.W. Hunt, W. Joseph Edwards, Charles Cousen, E.J. Portbury, Henry Lemon, Robert Staines, William Dean Taylor, and John Henry Robinson; after Sir David Wilkie.

Added engraved title page: The Wilkie gallery, with biographical & critical notices.

Printed by Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill.

BAC: British Art Center has three copies. Copy 1 is bound in modern buckram. Copy 2 is bound in black and blind-stamped green morocco with lavendar watered-silk endpapers. Bookplate: Jules David Prown. Copy 3 is bound in later gilt-tooled crimson half morocco and red boards.
Subject Terms:
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841. | Artists -- Great Britain. | Prown, Jules David -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1848-1850. | Mezzotints -- 1848-1850. | Steel engravings -- 1848-1850.
Contributors:
Virtue, George, 1793?-1868, publisher. | Clay, Richard, printer. | Armytage, James Charles, 1802–1897, engraver. | Cousen, Charles, 1819–1889, engraver. | Cousen, John, 1804–1880, engraver. | Edwards, W. Joseph, active 1843–1867, engraver. | Greatbach, G. (George), engraver. | Greatbach, William, 1802– | Hunt, T. W., active approximately 1850–1863, engraver. | Knight, T. W., engraver. | Lemon, Henry, 1822–1902, engraver. | Lightfoot, Peter, 1805–1885, engraver. | Mitchell, James, 1791–1852, engraver. | Periam, G. A. (George August), active 1838–1858, engraver. | Portbury, E. J., approximately 1795–1885, engraver. | Robinson, John Henry, 1796–1871, engraver. | Sharpe, Charles William, 1818–1899, engraver. | Smith, Edward, 1820–1893, engraver. | Staines, Robert, 1805–1849, engraver. | Taylor, William Dean, 1794–1857, engraver. | Thomson, J., engraver. | Willmore, Arthur, 1814–1888, engraver. | Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841, illustrator.