New Designs of Vases and Tripods Decorated in the Antique Taste, By Geo: Richardson, Archt. and Son on XXV Plates.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2777
Imprint
London,: Publish'd by the Author, No. 105, Great Tichfield Street,, Sept. 5th. 1793.
Physical Description
25 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 330 mm. (Quarto)
Responsibility Note
All plates are signed as designed and engraved by G. Richardson and Son (i.e. William Richardson).
References
E. Harris and N. Savage, British Architectural Books (1990), no. 742. p.387-90.
Summary Note
The twenty-five plates consist of the title plate, twelve plates each showing a vase, and twelve plates each showing a tripod.
Provenance
12 August 1797: 'Resolved, That Messrs Richardson's Two Books, sent to the President & Council, viz: A Series of Original Designs of Country Seats, &c. And, New Designs of Vases, & Tripods, &c. be purchased for the Use of the Academy. And also, that the Academy do subscribe for his new Work in Architecture', i.e. The new Vitruvius Britannicus, [1796-] 1802. (RA Council Minutes II, 329).
Vases - Tripods (stands) - Great Britain - History - 18th century - Neoclassical
Designs - Pattern books - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Aquatints - Great Britain - 18th century