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001 $ 05/3639
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Fulcher
245 1 0 $a Life Of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. By The Late George Williams Fulcher, Edited By His Son.
260 # # $a London: $b Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, $c 1856.
300 # # $a viii, 239, [1] p., frontis., add. engr. t.pl., [2] pl.; $c 170 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [Frontis., add. engr. t.pl., t.p.] - Preface [by E.S. Fulcher] - Contents - [Text] - Errata; [colophon].
508 # # $a The frontispiece is signed as drawn by Dupont; the title-plate vignette and plate [2] (facing p.100), as drawn by A.H. Burkitt; plate [1] (facing p.2) is unsigned by a draughtsman. All are signed as engraved by Geo. C. Finden.

The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'Fulcher, Printer, Sudbury.'
510 0 # $a H. Belsey, Gainsborough: a country life (2002); M. Postle, Thomas Gainsborough (2002); M. Rosenthal and M. Myrone, Gainsborough [exhibition catalogue] (2002); T. Gainsborough, The letters of Thomas Gainsborough, ed. J. Hayes (2001); A. Asfour and P. Williamson, Gainsborough's vision (1999).
520 2 # $a The 'Contents' list: I. Birthplace And Parentage; II. Gainsborough's Brothers; III. Early Years; IV. Ipswich; V. Bath; VI. London; VII. Reynolds's Tribute; List Of Gainsborough's Works; Addenda. Pictures Exhibited At The B.I. In 1856, &c.; Appendix. Letter From Thicknesse To Mrs. Gibbon.

The plates are captioned and show: (frontis.) 'Gainsborough's fisrt attempt at Portrait Painting'; (t.pl. vignette) 'Kew Church, On the South side of which Gainsborough was buried Augt. 9th. 1788'; [1] (facing p.2) 'Gainsborough's Birth-place, Sudbury, 1727'; [2] (facing p.100) 'Schomberg House, where Gainsborough died, Aug. 2. 1788'.

The book went into a second edition in the same year; and stimulated a renewal of interest in Gainsborough's work.
561 # # $a A front endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'Rec'd from the Council 19 Augt. 1856 HW.P.'
563 # # $a 19th-century green cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers decorated in-blind; spine lettered 'Life Of Gainsborough - Fulcher.'
600 1 4 $a Gainsborough
653 # # $a Artists - Painters - Great Britain - History - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Biography - Art history - Catalogues - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Fulcher $e editor
700 1 # $a Dupont $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Burkitt $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Finden $e engraver
700 1 # $a Fulcher $e printer
710 2 # $a Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans $e publisher