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• Author/Creator:Fisher, Thomas, 1781?-1836.
  
• Title:Ancient allegorical, historical, and legendary paintings, in fresco : discovered in the summer of 1804 on the walls of the chapel of the Trinity, belonging to the Gilde of the Holy Cross, at Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire / from drawings, made at the time of their discovery, by Thomas Fisher, F.S.A. ; also, a view and plan of the chapel, a view of New Place, the residence of William Shakespeare, facsimiles of various grants and indulgences to the gilde, with representations of one hundred and fifty ancient seals appended to them, facsimile extracts from the register of the gilde, the rolls of accounts ... ; described by John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.
  
• Published/Created:London : Henry G. Bohn, 1838.
  
• Physical Description:[6], 14 p., [56] leaves of plates : ill., plan, facsims. ; 48 cm.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A N 146 Copy 1
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A N 146 Copy 2
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A N 146 Copy 3
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

  • Location:SML, Folio Collection (Restricted Use)
    Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: JJk29 17
    
  • Status:Checked in - in transit 06-06-2014
    

   
• Local Notes:Several plates engraved by Hilkiah Burgess; others by and after Thomas Foisher.
  British Art Center has 3 copies. Copy 1 has the autograph of Miriam Houlston.
  
• Notes:Added lithographed t.p. reads: A series of antient, allegorical, historical and legendary paintings which were discovered in the summer of 1804 ... Drawn ... 1804. Etched and published ... by Thomas Fisher, 1807.
  
• Variant and related titles:Series of antient, allegorical, historical and legendary paintings.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon.
  Gild of the Holy Cross, The Blessed Mary, and St. John the Baptist (Stratford-upon-Avon)
  Mural painting and decoration--Great Britain.
  Seals (Numismatics)--Great Britain.
  Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--Charters, grants, privileges.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Etching, Colored--Specimens--1838.
  Engraving, Colored--Specimens--1838.
  Engraving--Specimens--1838.
  Lithography--Specimens--1838.
  Chron.--1838.
  Houlston, Miriam--Autograph.
  Houlston, Miriam--Autograph.
  Bohn, Henry G.--Publisher.
  Nichols (J. B.) and Son--Printer.
  
• Also listed under:Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873.
  Burgess, Hilkiah, engraver.