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Creator:
Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708–1742
Title(s):
Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society.
Published/Created:
[London] : [s.n.], MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:
16 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DT73.T3 N67 1741+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
DT73.T3 N67 1741+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Letter signed, p. 4: F.L. Norden.
Engravings by Markus Tuscher and George Vertue; after Frederik Norden. Printed with green ink.
Signatures: A-B⁴.
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 1348
English short title catalogue, T34954
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 in original gray paper wrappers. Large paper copy, 31 cm., untrimmed and stitched. Plates printed in green. Copy 2 is also a large paper copy, bound in contemporary gray boards. Plates printed in green, sepia, black and green, respectively. Bookplate: John Topham, Esq.
LWL 49 1348 8: Horace Walpole's copy, in a volume with his bookplate and press mark. A note on the title-page in an unidentified hand is partly removed by trimming. No. [8] in volume labelled: Miscellanies.
LWL 49 1348 8: Unidentified Manuscript notes.
Subject Terms:
Egypt -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.
Temples -- Egypt -- Thebes (Extinct city) -- Early works to 1800.
Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.
Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.
Topham, John -- Bookplate.
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Bookplate.
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Ms. notes.
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1741.
Engravings -- 1741.
Contributors:
Tuscher, Markus, 1705–1751, engraver.
Vertue, George, 1684–1756, engraver.
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