Some old portraits : a book about art and human beings / Booth Tarkington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portraits, British.

Great Britain--Biography--Portraits.

Great Britain.

Portraits.

Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Portraits.

Penn Provenance:

Harrop, Miller N. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 249 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 22 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits (part color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

[First trade edition].

Manufacture:

Garden City, N. Y., U. S. A. : Printed at The Country Life Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939.

Contents:

Essex on an old panel

King James in faded paint

Two portraits by William Dobson: Ben Jonson; John Milton

Portrait of Lucius Cary, Second Lord Falkland by Cornelius Johnson

Four portraits by Sir Peter Lely: Lord Castlehaven; A Princess of Orange; Will Ashburnham; Nell Gwyn

Portrait of the Duchess of Portsmouth by William Wissing

A portrait of Isaac Newton by John Riley

Kneller's Sarah Jennings, First Duchess of Marlborough

John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, by Joseph Highmore

Two ladies by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Gainsborough's Blackstone

A Loyalist Lady by John Singleton Copley

A Girl and an Admiral by Gilbert Stuart

Portrait of Tom Moore by John Jackson

Sir Thomas Lawrence and Two of his portraits: Edward Morris, Esquire and George the Fourth

Notes on the Portraits: Essex; Ben Jonson; Lord Falkland; Castlehaven; A Princess of Orange; Will Asburnham; Nell Gwyn; Lady Rothes; Sir William Blackstone; Mrs. Isaac Royall; Six [sic] Edward Hughes; George IV.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title information printed on buff rectangular panel within a single-rule and the whole within a double-ruled border.

"First edition, after the printing of a limited edition of two hundred and forty-seven copies."

Terra cotta cloth boards with beveled edges. Front cover has blind-stamped "T"; spine lettered in gilt.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Miller N. Harrop A.M.V. 1939".

OCLC:

3886493