Reference
L34/3
Title
“An Account of Pictures &c Bought and Collected by The Right Honourable Anthony Earl of Kent and by his son Henry Duke of Kent And also an Acco’t of pictures antiently at Rest House in the time of Amabell Countess of Kent made in the year 1718”
Date free text
1718
Production date
From: 1718 To: 1718
Scope and Content
Finely bound manuscript of 157 pages (contemporary pagination in ink) with later annotations in pencil.
Pages 3-23 duplicates that in L34/1 .
Pages 27-43 “An Account of Pictures Bought and Collected By His Grace Henry Duke of Kent At his House in St James Square And At Rest in Bedfordshire 1718.”
Pages 55-71 “An Acco’t of Family Pictures”
Pages 85-96 “Pictures antiently at Rest House in the time of Amabella Countess of Kent”
Pages 97-103 “Pictures at Rest House Collected the Bought by Henry Duke of Kent”
Page 112-113 “At the Hill House”
Page 156 Abstract Page 3-24 number of pictures 74 value £2353 3s. Historical pictures page 29-40 number of pictures 45 value £977 12s 6d. Number of pictures 8 from 45-53 value £230 7s. Family Pictures in London page 55-70 number of pictures 43 value £925 17s. Number of pictures 5 from 43 to 48 value £94 10s. The pictures antiently at Rest House from page 85 to 96 number of pictures 29 [value not given]. The pictures at Rest collected by Henry, Duke of Kent page 97 – 104 number of pictures 16 value £311 19s. Number of pictures 1 from 16 to 17 value £40. The pictures at Hill House page 113 number of pictures 4 value £37 11s 6d. Number of pictures 1 from 4 to 5 value £6 9s.
All other pages blank.
Full binding in calf on six cords. 370mm high x 250mm. Cambridge panel style binding tooled in gold with armorial stamp to centre of front and back boards. Full run up gilt spine without title panel. Decorative roll in gold to board edges All edges gilt. Marble paper endpapers and pastedowns made up from pieces of similar but not matching Dutch paper. Endbands sewn in yellow and blue silk.
jpegs available of all written pages.
Level of description
item