Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bray, Mrs. (Anna Eliza), 1790-1883
Title:
Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A. With personal reminiscences by Mrs. Bray ... With numerous illustrations from his works.
Published / Created:
London, John Murray, 1851.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 246 p. front. (port.) ill. 56 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A N 24 Copy 1

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A N 24 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A N 24 Copy 3
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A N 24 Copy 4
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A N 24 Copy 5

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Friedman, J. Color printing in England, 1486-1870, 113

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

BAC : British Art Center has 5 copies, all extra-illustrated. Copy 1 includes 13 original drawings by Stothard and an autograph letter. Copy 1 is inlaid into large paper sheets and bound in 2 volumes by John Bumpus. Copy 2 has the bookplates of Alexander P. Fletcher and C.R.L. Fletcher, as well as the autograph of Roger Senhouse. The text in copy 2 appears within a border ruled in red.

Copy 3, which was bound by S. Kaufmann, has the bookplate of Joseph Grimshire and the autograph of Roger Senhouse. Copy 4 has the autograph of Roger Senhouse. Copy 5, which was bound by Bain, has the bookplate of Stephen Sheldon.

BAC : In copy 1 the half-title is misbound after p. xxiv.

BAC : Copies 1, 2, and 4 have portions of the original wrappers bound in.

BAC : Copies 2, 3, and 4 have 2 separate advertisements at end: one of [2] p., published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, and another of 16 p., dated January, 1852, and published by Mr. Murray.

BAC : Copies 2, 3, and 4 have manuscript lists of the extra-illustrations.

BAC : Ill. by S. Williams, I. Thompson, Jackson, and W.T. Green, after Stothard.

BAC : Frontispiece lithographed by R.J. Lane after Harlow; printed by M.& N. Hanhart.

BAC : "Bradbury and Evans, printers."

Stothard's works: p. [235]-246.
Exhibition History:
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
Subject Terms:
Stothard, Thomas, 1755–1834.
Form/Genre:
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)