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Title(s)
Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.
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Additional Title(s)
Fruits
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Edition
Second edition.
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Published/Created
London : Published by Thomas McLean, printed by Turner and Hadley, Minerva Press, Queen's buildings, Cheltenham, 1819.
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Physical Description
[16] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7680 .B76 1819+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Host bibliographic record [Library Catalog]
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7680 .B76 1819+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Host bibliographic record [Library Catalog] -
Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Cover title, on publisher's printed label: Fruits
With two copies of each plate, one colored and one uncolored.
Each pair of plates accompanied by descriptive letterpress with directions for coloring.
NSTC, 2B50776
Bridson, G. Plant, animal & anatomical illustration, C475
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 97
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in blind- and gilt-tooled dark blue morocco; gilt edges. Has bound with it: Groups of flowers / George Bradshaw. Second edition. London : T. McLean, 1819; and, Six birds accurately drawn from nature / George Bradshaw. London : T. McLean, 1819.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in red boards with publisher's printed title label on front cover. Illegible inscription on title page. Cased with: Groups of flowers / George Bradshaw. Second edition. London : T. McLean, 1819; and, Six birds accurately drawn from nature / George Bradshaw. Second edition. London : T. McLean, 1819. -
Subject Terms
Botanical illustration -- 19th century -- Great Britain. | Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms -- Great Britain. | Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Drawing -- Technique. | Fruit in art | Lepard, John -- Publisher. | Longman & Co. -- Publisher. | McLean, Thomas -- Publisher. | Turner and Hadley -- Printer. | Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Watercolor painting -- Technique.
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Form/Genre
Drawing books. | Stipple engravings -- 1819. | Stipple engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1819.
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