A Description of the Works of Art forming the Collection of Alfred de Rothschild. The photographs by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S. Vol. 1Pictures. Vol. 2Sevres China, Furniture, Metal Work, and Objets de Vitrine
Rothschild Collection. Davis, Charles
London. 1884
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The lavish collection of Alfred de Rothschild illustrated with photographs in presentation blue morocco.
The illustrations include 6 mounted photographs by John Thomson of the principal rooms at Seamore Place showing many of the pieces of furniture, pictures, objets d'art and so on in their settings. The collection was divided between Seamore Place and de Rothschild's newly built Halton House.
'Next The Connoisseur visited and marvelled at the superb quality of everything in Mr. Alfred de Rothschild's collection, then in Seamore Place. Here were masterpieces of English, French and Dutch painting, and porcelain, bronzes, clocks and enamels hardly to be matched elsewhere' [Frank Herrmann. The English as Collectors, p. 390].
Alfred de Rothschild bequeathed the collection - the best-loved pieces of which he had inherited from his father - to his illegitimate daughter Almina who married Lord Carnarvon. She sold it at Christies in 1922 to finance Carnarvon and Carter's expedition to Egypt which resulted in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
The illustrations include 6 mounted photographs by John Thomson of the principal rooms at Seamore Place showing many of the pieces of furniture, pictures, objets d'art and so on in their settings. The collection was divided between Seamore Place and de Rothschild's newly built Halton House.
'Next The Connoisseur visited and marvelled at the superb quality of everything in Mr. Alfred de Rothschild's collection, then in Seamore Place. Here were masterpieces of English, French and Dutch painting, and porcelain, bronzes, clocks and enamels hardly to be matched elsewhere' [Frank Herrmann. The English as Collectors, p. 390].
Alfred de Rothschild bequeathed the collection - the best-loved pieces of which he had inherited from his father - to his illegitimate daughter Almina who married Lord Carnarvon. She sold it at Christies in 1922 to finance Carnarvon and Carter's expedition to Egypt which resulted in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
pp. 100; 178. 2 vols. Folio. 201 photographs by John Thomson mounted on 198 leaves. Full blue crushed morocco by F. Bedford with his discreet stamp to front free enddpaper verso, boards with elaborate gilt decoration à la dentelle surrounding de Rothschild's gilt monogram, banded spines with elaborate gilt decoration and gilt title in six compartments, turn-ins with elaborate decorative tooling, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.
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