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Leaves From My Sketch-Book

Print
1877 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lithograph, tinted with one tint-stone, depicting a grotto, from a volume of 26 plates with descriptive text. Perfect bound in imitation leather. Most images signed variously, 'E.W.Cooke' or 'EW Cooke RA'. Each image lettered with title and each plate numbered with plate number.


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Leaves From My Sketch-Book (series title)
  • The Grotto Of Posilipo, Naples (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph, tinted with one tint-stone
Brief description
Lithograph by E. W. Cooke depicting a grotto in Naples, from a volume of 26 plates entitled 'Leaves From My Sketch-Book' (Second Series), published by John Murray. Great Britain, 1877.
Physical description
Lithograph, tinted with one tint-stone, depicting a grotto, from a volume of 26 plates with descriptive text. Perfect bound in imitation leather. Most images signed variously, 'E.W.Cooke' or 'EW Cooke RA'. Each image lettered with title and each plate numbered with plate number.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 24.4 cm
  • Width: 32.8cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
Collection
Accession number
SP.174:7

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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