53rd Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 1987

Oxford, England: The Walpole Society, 1987. Hardcover. VG. Blue cloth. xv, 254+ pp. 230 bw plates. The Walpole Society was founded in April, 1911, to promote the study of British art history. Contains the following chapters: "Nathaniel Marchant, Gem-Engraver, 1739-1816", "Bury St. Edmunds: A Seventeenth-Century Art Centre", "Notes on Egbert van Heemskerck and the English Taste for Genre", "The Derby Collection (1721-1735)", "A Notebook of Portrait Compositions by Thomas Bardwell", "Christopher Steele, 1733-1767", and "The 'Diffusion of Knowlege and Taste' (truncated) : John Flaxman and the Improvement of the Study Facilities at the Royal Academy". Issued only to subscribers. (Inventory #: 13679)