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001 $ 06/4709
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
245 0 0 $a Pictures And Drawings Selected From The Works Of Edward Armitage, R.A. Issued Under The Authority Of Mrs. Armitage
260 # # $a London $b Sampson Low, Marston And Company Limited St. Dunstan's House, E.C. $c 1898
300 # # $a One portfolio, containing 10 loose p., 53 loose f., [53] loose pl.; $c 663 mm. (Broadsheet.)
500 # # $a The plates do not carry numbers but are assigned numbers 1-53 in the 'List Of Illustrations' and on the letter-press leaves which severally precede each plate.
505 0 # $a [Half-t., t.p.] - Introduction - List Of Illustrations - [Plates, and letter-press sheets giving numbers and titles].
508 # # $a The first plate is signed as photographed by Elliott & Fry and 'Gravure' Hanfstaengl Munich. All other plates are signed as painted by E. Armitage and 'Gravure' Hanfstaengl Munich.

The printer is named on the title-page verso: 'Chiswick Press: - Charles Whittingham And Co. Took's Court, Chancery Lane, London.'
510 0 # $a A study of the Hanfstaengl firm was H. Gebhart, Franz Hanfstaengl: vom der Lithographie zur Photographie (1984).
520 2 # $a This tribute to Edward Armitage, R.A., was published in the year after his death, 'Under The Authority Of' his widow, Mrs Laurie Armitage, who herself died in 1898.

The 'Introduction' describes this as a representative selection of the works of a historical painter, who had a special predilection for Biblical themes but whose earliest subjects were secular.

The plates are describes in detail in the 'List Of Illustrations'. The first shows a portrait of Edward Armitage from a photograph by Elliott and Fry; the rest show paintings and drawings by him, in chronologic order (the 'List Of Illustrations' gives the dates of execution of most of these). Plate 25 shows 'Esther's banquet' (1865) - the subject of Armitage's diploma work for the Royal Academy.
563 # # $a 19th-century brown cloth portfolio, upper cover lettered 'Selected Pictures And Drawings Of Edward Armitage, R.A.'
600 1 4 $a Armitage
630 0 0 $a Bible
653 # # $a Paintings - History paintings - Painting - Great Britain - History - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Portfolios (groups of works) - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Portfolios (containers) - Pictorial works - Photomechanical prints - Photogravures (prints) - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Armitage $e source artist
700 1 # $a Armitage
710 2 # $a Elliott & Fry $e source artist
710 2 # $a Hanfstaengl $e photographic printer
710 2 # $a Sampson Low, Marston And Company $e publisher