Research Catalog

Title

A memorial volume of Virginia historical portraiture, 1585-1830, edited by Alexander Wilbourne Weddell ... with an introduction by Ellen Glasgow and a review of early American portraiture by Thomas B. Clarke.

Author

Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948

Publication

Richmond, The William Byrd Press, incorporated, 1930.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945.
• Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931.
• Virginia Historical Society.
• Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)

Description

xxxi, 556 p. incl. col. front. plates, ports. (1 col.) fold. map.; 35 cm.

Alternative Title

Virginia historical portraiture.

Subjects

• Portrait painters, American
• Portraits, British
• Portrait painting > United States
• Virginia > Biography > Portraits
• Portraits > Virginia
• Portraits, American > Exhibitions

Note

• Part of the portraits accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress; the biography of each magistrate of whom no portraits are known to exist, accompanied by blank leaf on which a reproduction of a portrait, if found, may by placed.
• "This limited edition of one thousand copies has been printed from type and the type distributed."
• "This volume commemorates an exhibition of contemporary portraits of personages associated with the history of Virginia between the years 1585-1830, held in Virginia House, Richmond, under the auspices of the Virginia Historical Society, between April 26 and May 27, 1929."

Bibliography (note)

• "A bibliography of early American portraits and portrait painters, prepared by the Division of Bibliography of the Library of Congress": p. 433-440; "A brief bibliography of Virginia": p. 441-465; Bibliography: p. 513-517.

Call Number

*KF+ 1930 (Weddell, A. W. Memorial volume of Virginia historical portraiture)

LCCN

30032609

OCLC

975407

Author

Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne, 1876-1948, ed.

Title

A memorial volume of Virginia historical portraiture, 1585-1830, edited by Alexander Wilbourne Weddell ... with an introduction by Ellen Glasgow and a review of early American portraiture by Thomas B. Clarke.

Imprint

Richmond, The William Byrd Press, incorporated, 1930.

Bibliography

"A bibliography of early American portraits and portrait painters, prepared by the Division of Bibliography of the Library of Congress": p. 433-440; "A brief bibliography of Virginia": p. 441-465; Bibliography: p. 513-517.

Local Note

This copy is no. 259."

John Shaw Billings memorial coll.

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Added Author

Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945.

Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict), 1848-1931.

Virginia Historical Society.

Virginia House (Richmond, Va.)

Added Title

Virginia historical portraiture.

Research Call Number

*KF+ 1930 (Weddell, A. W. Memorial volume of Virginia historical portraiture)