MARC Record view

001 $ 05/3522
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
245 0 0 $a Imitations Of Drawings By Iohn Gibson R.A. Sculptor. Engraved By G. Wenzel And L. Prosseda Rome 1852.
260 # # $a [London:] $b Published By J. Hogarth, 5, Haymarket, $c 1852.
300 # # $a Engr. t.pl., [39] pl.; $c 382×532 mm.
505 0 # $a [T.pl.] - [Plates].
508 # # $a All plates are signed in the plate as drawn by Gibson apart from no. [29]. Two are signed as engraved by F. Jordan [pl. 6, 11]; one, as engraved by G. Wenzel [pl. 10].

Almost all carry the publisher's imprint of J. Hogarth.
510 0 # $a B. Read, Victorian sculpture (1982); J.B. Hartman, 'Canova. Thorvaldsen and Gibson', in Eng. Misc., 6 (1955), p.205-35.
520 2 # $a The publication-date of 1852 is carried by the title-plate and most plates; that of 1851 appears on the first eleven plates (and pl. [6] is dated in the plate '1849').

All plates are captioned. The subjects of most are from Greek mythology, as treated in the Iliad, the Greek dramatists and the Aeneid. But some have general subjects, such as 'Mother and Child' or 'Design for a Monument'. Plate [[8] has the Christian subject, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me'.
561 # # $a Bought in 1861 or 1862 (Annual Report From The Council Of The Royal Academy; 1862).
563 # # $a 20th-century light brown cloth-covered boards, upper cover lettered 'Imitations Of Drawings By J. Gibson'.
600 1 4 $a Gibson
653 # # $a Mythology, Greek
653 # # $a Drawings - Europe - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Gibson $e source artist
700 1 # $a Wenzel $e engraver
700 1 # $a Prosseda $e engraver
700 1 # $a Hogarth $e publisher
700 1 # $a Jordan $e engraver