A memorial volume of Virginia historical portraiture, 1585-1830, edited by Alexander Wilbourne Weddell ... with an introduction by Ellen Glasgow and a review of early American portraiture by Thomas B. Clarke

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948.

Contributor:

Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945.

Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931.

Virginia Historical Society

Virginia House, Richmond

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portraits, American.

Portraits, American--Exhibitions.

Portrait-painters, American.

Virginia--Biography--Portraits.

Virginia.

Virginia--Biography.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 556 p. : col. front., plates, ports. (1 col.) fold. map ; 35 cm.

Other Title:

Virginia historical portraiture.

Place of Publication:

Richmond : The William Byrd Press, incorporated, 1930.

Notes:

Part of the portraits accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress; the biography of each magistrate of whom no portraits are known to exist, accompanied by blank leaf on which a reproduction of a portrait, if found, may by placed.

"This limited edition of one thousand copies has been printed from type and the type distributed."

"This volume commemorates an exhibition of contemporary portraits of personages associated with the history of Virginia between the years 1585-1830, held in Virginia House, Richmond, under the auspices of the Virginia Historical Society, between April 26 and May 27, 1929."

"A bibliography of early American portraits and portrait painters, prepared by the Division of Bibliography of the Library of Congress": p. 433-440; "A brief bibliography of Virginia": p. 441-465; Bibliography: p. 513-517.

OCLC:

975407