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    • Author/Creator:Pocock, Alfred, lithographer.
    • Title:The Longleat views / by R.R. Pocock.
    • Publication:Bristol : G. Davey, [1840?]
    • Physical Description:[13] leaves : illustrations ; 42 x 59 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: Folio B 2014 18 Copy 1
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: Folio B 2014 18 Copy 2
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's original gilt-stamped green cloth. Hand-colored.
      BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is bound in publisher's original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Uncolored.
    • Notes:Title from cover.
      Date of publication from Abbey.
      Imprint from plates.
      Six tinted lithographed views by Alfred Pocock, accompanied by seven pages of text (also lithographed).
    • Format:Book
    • Contents:Porter's Lodge, leading from Horningsham -- The garden front at Longleat House -- The grand entrance hall -- A view from Heavens Gate -- Sheerwater Lake & boat house -- Horningsham Church and village.
    • References:Holmes, M. Country house described, p. 167
      Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 422
    • Subjects:Longleat House (Warminster, England)
      Longleat House (Warminster, England)
      Country houses--England--Warminister.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1840.
      Bristol--Imprints--Specimens--1840.
      Davey, George--
    • Genre/Form:Lithographs--1840.
    • Also listed under:Pocock, Rose R.
      Walter, Paul F., donor.