Portraits alongside a battle scene

Title:: Portraits alongside a battle scene
Description:: Information from accompanying cards: A remarkable fine series of fore edge paintings appear on the edges of the three volumes. Each volume bears a double fore edge painting making six in all. Each of the six paintings is divided into three parts, consisting of a central scene or view with a portrait on either side. There are in all nineteen separate subjects, one of the paintings having an extra portrait above the central scene.
Date:: (c) 1808
Format:: Paintings
Genre:: Watercolors
Portrait paintings
Fore-edge painting
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Special Collections, Rare Books
Subjects:: Campaigns & battles
Extent:: 1 painting : watercolor on fore edge of book
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Notes:: Title supplied by cataloger.
Found on: The speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons, vol. 1
Notes (acquisition):: Gift of Albert H. Wiggin, May 1951.
Notes (date):: Date of painting unknown. Publication date of book: 1808.
Notes (object):: Fore-edge/fanned to the left
Identifier:: 07_04_000185B
Call #:: RARE BKS DA522 .P4A3 1817x v.1
Barcode:: 39999063117483