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001 $ 04/3126
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
245 0 0 $a Studies of Figures by Gainsborough Executed In Exact Imitation Of The Originals, By Richard Lane
260 # # $a London. $b Pubd. By J. Dickinson, New Bond Stt. $c Jan. 1. 1825. $f Printed At Chas. Hullmandel's Lithographic Establishment
300 # # $a [26] pl. (incl. t.pl., dedic. pl.); $c 541 mm.
505 0 # $a [T.pl., dedic.pl.] - [Plates].
508 # # $a The title-plate is signed as scripted by J. Magenis and lithographed by C. Hullmandel; the dedication plate is signed as lithographed by C. Hullmandel. All other plates are unsigned.

The work is dedicated by Gainsborough's great-nephew, Richard Lane, to Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A.
510 0 # $a J.M. Friedman, Color printing in England 1486-1870 [exhibition catalogue] (1978), p.43-4.

D. Brenneman, 'Thomas Gainsborough and the picturesque sketch', in Word and image, 13:4 (1997), p.392-404; Gainsborough drawings, ed. J. Hayes and L. Stainton [exhibition catalogue] (1983); J. Hayes, The drawings of Thomas Gainsborough (2 v., 1970).

S. Lambert, The image multiplied: five centuries of printed reproductions of paintings and drawings (1987); M. Twyman, Lithography 1800-1850 (1970), esp. p.155-6; M.L. Twyman, 'The tinted lithograph', in Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 1 (1965), p.39-56.
520 2 # $a Plates [3-26] show clothed, usually single, figures of men, women or children, many in country backgrounds. Plate [1], the title-plate, incorporates a vignette portrait of Gainsborough.

Most of the plates are in tinted lithography, in imitation of crayon originals, many of which had been drawn by Gainsborough on tinted paper with white highlights.
563 # # $a 19th-century black morocco, upper and lower covers having gilt rococo borders with royal arms of Britain gilt-stamped centre; gilt-decorated spine lettered 'Studies Of Figures By Gainsborough Imitation Of The Originals By R. Lane.' The upper cover is stamped as 'Bound By Hering'.
600 1 4 $a Gainsborough
653 # # $a People - Women - Men (male humans) - Great Britain - 18th century
653 # # $a Drawings - Sketches - Studies (visual works) - Great Britain - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Colour printing - Lithographs - Lithotints - Armorial bindings - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Gainsborough $e source artist
700 1 # $a Lane $e lithographer $e previous owner $e donor
700 1 # $a Hullmandel $e lithographic printer
700 1 # $a Dickinson $e publisher
700 1 # $a Lawrence $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Magenis $e script engraver
700 1 # $a Hering $e binder