A curious collection of ancient paintings : accurately engraved from excellent drawings, lately done after the originals by one of the best hands at Rome : with an account where and when they were found, and where they now are, and several critical, historical, and mythological observations upon them.

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Turnbull, George, 1698-1748, A curious collection of ancient paintings , 1741

Creator:: Turnbull, George, 1698–1748
Title(s):: A curious collection of ancient paintings : accurately engraved from excellent drawings, lately done after the originals by one of the best hands at Rome : with an account where and when they were found, and where they now are, and several critical, historical, and mythological observations upon them.
Published/Created:: London : Printed for T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, 1741.
Physical Description:: [4], 42 p., 50, A-D leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 41 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A N 155
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/582587
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Dedication signed G.T. [i.e. George Turnbull].
"Many of the original pieces here described ... now in Dr. Mead's library": p. [41].
Plates by J. Mynde; after Camillo Paderni.
Subject Terms:: Engraving -- Specimens -- 1741.
Lefroy, Antony -- Bookplate.
Mead, Richard, 1673–1754 -- Art collections.
Osborne, T. -- Publisher.
Painting, Ancient.
Contributors:: Mynde, James, 1702–1771, engraver.
Paderni, Camillo, -approximately 1770.
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