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001 $ 04/3864
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Papworth
245 1 0 $a Dedicated By Permission To Her Royal Highness The Duchess Of Kent Original Sculptural Designs By Edgar George Papworth Sculpr. Executed In Rome During His Residence There As The Prize Student Of The Royal Academy In 1834, 1835, & 1836.
246 3 # $a Original Sculptural Designs
260 # # $c [between 1842 and 1843]
300 # # $a [2] f., [25] pl.; $c 542 mm.
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - Subscribers - [Plates].
508 # # $a No plate is signed.

No publisher or printer is named.
520 2 # $a Plate [23] includes in its caption the date, 'Executed Heroick Size In 1840'. The work must have been published between 1842 (when the listed Subscriber 'Charles Barry Esqre. R.A.' became a full Member of the Academy) and 1843 (when the author presented this copy to the Royal Academy).

The plates are outline drawings. All carry captions or inscriptions within the plate, and fall into three groups, the first plate in each group carrying a collective title for that group: 'Designs By Edgar George Papworth' (pl. [1-13], chiefly showing subjects from ancient Greek and Roman mythology, but also including 'The Plague', 'The Slave', 'The Emancipated', 'The Seven Ages'); 'Monumenti' (pl. [14-20], all apparently funeral monuments); 'Sacred Subjects' (pl. [21-25])..
561 # # $a Presented by the author in 1843 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, IX, 319).
563 # # $a 20th-century red buckram; unlettered.
653 # # $a Mythology, Greek - Mythology, Roman
653 # # $a Christian art and symbolism
653 # # $a Sculpture - Monuments - Funerary sculpture - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Designs - Student drawings - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - 19th century
700 1 # $a Victoria, Duchess of Kent $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Papworth $e previous owner $e donor