Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries : their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found / by Gordon Dunthorne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunthorne, Gordon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engraving.

Engraving--History.

Flowers in art.

Flowers--Pictorial works.

Flowers.

Fruit--Pictorial works.

Fruit.

Engraving--Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Leisenring, Julia B. (donor) (RBC copy)

Bissell, Julia A. (inscription) (RBC copy)

Swank, Scott T. (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 275, [2] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Published by the author, 1938.

Notes:

Title and half-title leaves illustrated in colors.

"Designed and printed at the Lakeside press, Chicago, U.S.A., in an edition of twenty-five hundred copies of which seven hundred and fifty copies contain a special colour plate listing subscribers' names."--P. [277].

"Catalogue raisonné of the works of the 18th and early 19th centuries in which flower and fruit prints are to be found, with complete descriptions of the characteristics of each print, artist, engraver, publisher and other details necessary for their identification": P. 169-261.

"Chronological list of the works in which prints of camellias are found": P. [263].

Includes index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy without special color plate listing subscribers' names.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Julia B. Leisenring.

RBC copy has typescript letter dated 23 August 1984 on letterhead of Winterthur Museum & Gardens from Scott T. Swank to "Mrs. Alfred E. Bissel" (i.e. Julia A. Bissell) laid in; photocopy of seller's description of print "Cardamine carnosa" from Waldstein and Kitaibel's Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae laid in.

OCLC:

493624