English mezzotint portraits and their states : from the invention of mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th century / by Charles E. Russell

Charles E. Russell

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/3769

Author

Imprint

London; New York: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd.; Minton, Balch & Company, 1926

Physical Description

2 v. : 64 pl. (ports.). ; 39 cm. (v. 2: 27 cm.).

General Note

"Printed in Great Britain by Morton, Burt & Sons, Ltd., 56-58, Porchester Road, Bayswater, London, W.2. Photogravure plates engraved and printed by A. Alexander & Sons, Ltd., 15 Westmoreland Place, City Road, London, N.1."

Contents

Vol. 1. The art of mezzotint and its early use -- Plates -- v. 2. Engravers -- Engraver not ascertained. Class 1 : seventeenth century -- Class 2 : earlier portion eighteenth century -- Class 3 : latter portion eighteenth century -- Appendix of earliest specimens -- Errata -- Corrections of Chaolner Smith's Indices -- Index of Painters -- Index of Personages -- Index of Fancy and other names -- Vol. II has title: English mezzotint portraits and their states; catalogue of corrections and additions to Chaloner Smith's "British mezzotinto portraits.

Provenance

Inscribed in black ink on colophon in Volume 1: "To Sir Frank Short from Charles Russell."
Letter from Charles Russell to Sir Frank Short dates 22 December 1926 pasted to front free endpaper in volume 1.
The front paste-downs of both volumes carry a 20th century Royal Academy bookplate on which is typed: "Presented by Sir Frank Short, R.A. 1929."

Copy Note

"This edition is limited to six hundred and twenty-five copies."

Contributors