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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
1849
Object Place: London
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book
Dimensions
Height x width x depth: 26.8 x 18.7 x 2.9 cm (10 9/16 x 7 3/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Lloyd and Vivian Hawes Collection
Accession Number2000.757
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
DescriptionIllustrated book: brown cloth with blind embossed lettering and decoration. Book illustrated with 15 etchings by the author. The first edition. 15 etched plates by Ruskin. List appears on page ix. Binding by Westleys and Co., Friar Street, London: brown blindstamped designs with seven round spaces lettered Reliogio, Observ/Antia, Avcto/ritas, fides, obedi/entia, memo/ria, spiritus Front cover stamped in gold: R.M. HUNT Front free endpaper handlettered in pen and gray ink: R. M. Hunt Front free endpaper signed in graphite pencil: Richard Morris Hunt Printed errata slip opposite page 1. Bound in is Smith, Elder, and Co. catalogue dated February 1851, 16 pp.
ProvenanceLloyd and Vivian Hawes, Wellesley, MA; her bequest to MFA, June 2000.