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Author: Bell, C.F. (ed)
Title: Annals of Thomas Banks sculptor, Royal Academician with some letters from Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. to Banks’s daughter.
Publication: Cambridge, University Press 1938.
Price: £110
Reference: 08751
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Thick folio. xviii+4+229+(1)pp, 43 photo plates. Publisher’s cloth. Pictorial bookplate of William A. Crowle (the Sydney art collector and philanthropist). Some light spotting and foxing to text (plates unaffected).
The collected letters and other papers of the English sculptor Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805), one of the earliest students and sculptor members of the Royal Academy, with extensive commentary by Bell and numerous photographic illustrations of Bell’s works.