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Materials:

coadestone fragment

Size Notes:

30 x 30 in (square at base)

Description:

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Literature:

The Somerset House Gazette, 1824, vol. I, p. 381.Coade’s Gallery or Exhibition in Artificial Stone, Westminster Bridge Road, Specimens from the Manufactory at King’s Arms Stairs Narrow-Wall Lambeth, 1799, p. 22, no. 37.A. Kelly, Mrs. Coade’s Stone, Upton-upon-Severn, 1990, p. 68.T. Mowl, 'Inside Beckford’s Landscape of the Mind’, Country Life, 7 February 2002, p. 60.I. Roscoe, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and London, p. 288, no. 116.COMPARATIVE LITERATURER. Gatty, Portrait of a merchant prince: James Morrison, 1789–1857, Northallerton, 1977.Ed. D.E. Ostergard, William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, New Haven and London, 2001.J.E. Ruch, 'Regency Coade: A Study of the Coade Record Books, 1813-21’, Architectural History, vol. 11, 1968, pp. 34-56, 106-107.

Provenance:

Acquired from the Rushworth & Jarvis auction of the stock of the Coade Artifcial StoneManufactory, Lambeth on 23 July 1843, by J.B. Papworth, architect (d. 1847) on behalf ofJames Morrison (d. 1859), for 16 guineas and subsequently removed to The Pavillion, Fonthill,Wiltshire, and thence by descent from James Morrison to his great, great, great grandson,Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale, from who acquired by the present vendor.