Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The picture exhibition ; containing the original drawings of eighteen disciples : to which are added, moral and historical explanations / published under the inspection of Mr. Peter Paul Rubens, professor of polite arts.
Call Number
English 18 8134
Hamilton 124s
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1n79h7889
Publisher
Worcester, (Mass.) : by Isaiah Thomas, 1788.
Language
English
Date Created
1788
Extent
[2], viii, [1], 10-112, [12] p. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Provenance
Inscribed "H.M. Brooks, Esq., from his friend J.K. Wiggin, March 1860."--In ink, on first fly-leaf recto.
References
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 134
Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 685
Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), no. 124
Princeton copy 2: Welch 685.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Attributed to Richard Johnson by Welch, and to Oliver Goldsmith by Hamilton.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [113-119].
Princeton copy 2: First published by Thomas Carnan in 1774.
Princeton copy 2: Compiled by the inexhaustible Richard Johnson.
Binding Note
Nineteenth century half leather binding and marbeled papers; title gold stamped on spine.
Princeton copy 2: green simulated D.f.w. red & green floral s.c., green mor label.

Discovery Information

Subject
Art—Study and teaching

Physical Characteristics

File Count
138

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fdd75644-f422-4a25-8118-1f916d1a0fd9/manifest