Selections From Ancient Sculpture representing Thirty-Six Masterpieces Of Antiquity A Supplement To A History Of Ancient Sculpture By Lucy M. Mitchell Twenty Plates In Phototype, By Albert Frisch, Berlin

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/3549

Imprint

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1, Paternoster Square, 1883

Physical Description

Portfolio containing 6 p., 20 pl. (the plates carry no numbers but in the 'Contents' are numbered I-XX); 465 mm.

Contents

[T.p.] - Contents - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

The plates are unsigned.

The printer is named on the title-page verso: 'Franklin Press: Rand, Avery And Company, Boston.'

Summary Note

Mrs. Mitchell's History of ancient sculpture was published in 1883 (New York and London).

The plates show ancient statues or fragments of sculpture representing figures of ancient Greek mythology. The last plate shows a bust of the emperor Caracalla.

Binding Note

19th-century green cloth, upper cover lettered 'Selections From Ancient Sculpture'; spine lettered 'R.A.'

Subject

Mythology, Greek - Iconography
Sculpture, Greek - Sculpture, Roman - Statues - History
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Phototypes - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

Mrs. Lucy Myers Mitchell, History Of Ancient Sculpture
Albert Frisch
Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, publisher