Hart, Richard. [Ecclesiastical illustrations

General notes

This record contains unverified data from old cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance Artist: The illustrations were executed by the author of the printed work in which they have been inserted. A letter, also inserted in the volume, from the author to Dawson Turner describes the art work: 'You will observe that it [the book] has been illustrated by the author, and though these illustrations are rather proofs of my industry than my skill, the experience of my last visit to Yarmouth assures me that you will not too severely scan the attempt of an untaught artist' History: The illustrations are tipped into Hart's Ecclesiastical records of England, Ireland, and Scotland, from the fifth century till the Reformation ... Cambridge : J. & J.J. Deighton, 1836. It is doubtful that the illustrations were actually used in the printed edition Subject: Item no.1: Bishop in his mitre [etc.] ... Designed from the statue of John de Sheffrey in Rochester Cathedral but the colors from fancy. Ink and watercolor, initialed. Item no.2: Figure of Saint Mark, an illumination from an ancient Irish ms. of the 9th or 10th cent. in Sir W. Bertram's Iris antiquarian researches pt.1. Ink over indications in pencil, unsigned. Item no.3: Elements of ecclesiastical architecture designed and drawn by R. Hart. Styles named and dated at bottom. Ink wash, signed. Item no.4: 5 figures numbered and listed at bottom 1) a stationary shrine 2) a portable shrine, 3) tapestry hung from column to column, 4) a paschal or sepulchrum Christi, 5) fresco painting of Beckett's martyrdom. Ink and watercolor, initialed. Item no.5: 6 figures of ecclesiastical interior architecture. Ink wash. Item no.6: 19 figures of ecclesiastical props. Ink, initialed. Item no.7: 2 figures, illustrations of the rood. Ink wash, initialed. Item no.8: 15 figures of ecclesiastical props. Pen and ink, initialed. Item no.9: 6 figures, musical instruments, etc. Pen and ink, initialed. Item no.10: 7 figures, ecclesiastical costumes. Ink wash, initialed. 2 additional items are copies of ancient ms. pages in ink Provenance: The library purchased the volume in 1954 from William Robinson. The copy had been presented by the author to Dawson Turner in 1842