A memorial volume of Virginia historical portraiture, 1585-1830
By: edited by Alexander Wilbourne Weddell ... with an introduction by Ellen Glasgow and a review of early American portraiture by Thomas B. Clarke.
Contributors: Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945.; Clarke, Thomas Benedict, 1848-1931.; Virginia Historical Society.; Virginia House, Richmond.
Publisher: The William Byrd Press, incorporated
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Richmond
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
Subjects: Portraits, American.; Portraits, American -- Exhibitions.; Portrait-painters, American.; Virginia -- Biography -- Portraits.; Virginia -- Biography.
Genres: Exhibitions.; Portraits.; Biography.
Other titles: Virginia historical portraiture.
Notes: "A bibliography of early American portraits and portrait painters, prepared by the Division of Bibliography of the Library of Congress": p. 433-440; "A brief bibliography of Virginia": p. 441-465; Bibliography: p. 513-517.
Part of the portraits accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress; the biography of each magistrate of whom no portraits are known to exist, accompanied by blank leaf on which a reproduction of a portrait, if found, may by placed.
"This limited edition of one thousand copies has been printed from type and the type distributed."
"This volume commemorates an exhibition of contemporary portraits of personages associated with the history of Virginia between the years 1585-1830, held in Virginia House, Richmond, under the auspices of the Virginia Historical Society, between April 26 and May 27, 1929."