FARINGTON

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Unused quarto sketchbook or album of good thick paper, with the ownship inscription of the artist and diarist Joseph Farington, and the words 'The Incorporated Society of Artists' on the spine. With a membership list and three other items inserted.

Author: 
Joseph Farington (1747-1821), landscape painter and diarist [The Incorporated Society of Artists, London]
Publication details: 
The volume contains paper watermarked 1806. The printed membership list of the Society of Artists, London, is dated 1774, and another item is dated 1777.
£680.00

The present item is a puzzle. Farington joined the Incorporated Society of Artists at the age of twenty-one, and played an active part in its affairs until his resignation in 1773.

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