Grand Tour Interest, a bound volume containing seven pen and ink cameo drawings including Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion, drawings initialled RPI and dated 1774-1775, 8vo, gilt tooled red calf, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Michael Lord Sandys
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Footnote:The drawings bear a striking resemblance to examples in: Worlidge (Thomas) [(1700-1766)] A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt, London: by Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge & M. Wicksteed, 1768
Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Grand Tour Interest, a bound volume containing seven pen and ink cameo drawings including Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion, drawings initialled RPI and dated 1774-1775, 8vo, gilt tooled red calf, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Michael Lord Sandys
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
The drawings bear a striking resemblance to examples in: Worlidge (Thomas) [(1700-1766)] A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt, London: by Dryden Leach for M. Worlidge & M. Wicksteed, 1768
Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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