Description of a grand picture, now exhibiting in the Roman Gallery, of the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, representing ... the death of Virginia, painted by Monsieur Le Thière, etc.

Guillaume Lethière

RA Collection: Book

Record number

24/1094

Author

Imprint

[London]: [James Bullock, Printer], 1828

Physical Description

24 p., 1 plate (fold.): illus. 207 mm.

General Note

This pamphlet is bound with its paper front cover. The printer statement is on the verso of the title-page (and the foot of the final page), 'London: Printed by James Bullock, Lombard-Street, Whitefriars.' The folded plate, entitled 'Virginius', is placed as the frontispiece.

Provenance

Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
Bound (11) in vol. III of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.

Binding Note

In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / III'.

Subject

Lethière, Guillaume 1760-1832. The Death of Virginia; Exhibitions

Contributors

Guillaume Lethière, source artist
James Bullock, printer
Mrs. Rodwell, donor
Richard Westmacott the Younger RA, previous owner