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001 $ 05/889
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Lewis, Frederick Christian
110 2 # $a British Museum
245 0 0 $a Imitations of Claude Lorraine, By F.C. Lewis, Engraved From The Drawings In The British Museum. Dedicated, By Permission, To His Majesty.
260 # # $a London, $c 1837. $b Engraved & Published By F.C. Lewis, Engraver To The King, 53, Charlotte Street, Portland Place.
300 # # $a [3], 20 pl.; $c 550 mm.
500 # # $a The first three, unnumbered pl. carry engraved text.
505 0 # $a [T.pl.] - Reference To The Plates - Subscribers To The Work - [Plates].
508 # # $a All numbered plates are signed as drawn by Claude and engraved by F.C. Lewis.

Each carries F.C. Lewis's publisher's imprint and the date, 1837.
510 0 # $a A survey of reproduction techniques is S. Lambert, The image multiplied: five centuries of printed reproductions (1987).

On the reception of Claude's paintings and drawings in Britain see M. Kitson, 'Turner and Claude', in Turner Stud., 2:2 (1983), p.2-15; Classic ground: British artists and the landscape of Italy, by D. Bull et al. [ exhibition catalogue] (1981); C. Pace, 'Claude the enchanted: interpretations of Claude in England in the earlier nineteenth century', in Burlington Magazine, 111 (1969), p.733-40; D. Howard, 'Some eighteenth-century English followers of Claude', in Burlington Magazine, 111 (1969), p.726-33; H.V.S. Ogden and M.S. Ogden, English taste in landscape in the seventeenth century (1955); E.W. Manwaring, Italian landscape in eighteenth-century England (1925; repr. 1965).
520 2 # $a The history of this group of Claude's drawings is described briefly in the 'Reference To The Plates': 'The original Drawings from which the following Twenty Plates have been Engraved, were brought into this Country from Madrid by Mr. Binda, they then became the property of Mr. Payne Knight, and were by him bequeathed to the British Museum. - none of them have been before engraved.'

The plates all show landscape drawings. The unnumbered vignette on the title-plate 'it is thought represents Claude's House, the Tempietta'.

The list of 'Subscribers To The Work' includes two Royal Academicians - John Constable and A.W. Callcott.
541 # # $c Presented by $a J. F. Lewis RA in $d 1867 (see 'Librarian's Report, RA Annual Report for 1867, p. 27).
561 # # $a The front endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'Presented to the Royal Academy by J.F. Lewis R.A.'
563 # # $a 19th-century red watered cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Lewis' Claudes'.
600 0 4 $a Claude
610 2 4 $a British Museum
653 # # $a Landscapes
653 # # $a Drawings - 17th century
653 # # $a Collections - Great Britain - London - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 0 # $a Claude $e source artist
700 1 # $a Lewis $e engraver $e publisher
700 0 # $a William IV $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Lewis $e previous owner $e donor