The Lennox-Boyd collection of architectural prints

Item date: 19th century
Grant Value: 3,500
Item cost: 115,000
Item date acquired: 1995
Item institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London

Over 8,000 architectural prints, mostly 19th century: steel and copper engravings, and lithographs, predominantly issued loose, i.e. not cut out of books. Often issued to promote an architects work or to raise funds for the erection of a building, the prints constitute in many cases the only record of lost or unbuilt structures. They provide contmporary illustrations of the work of all the important architects of the 19th century as well as representing the work of many lesser and obscure figures. Illustrated at p.15 of AR

Item Provenance
Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd