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Catalogue no. 17. Dying Gladiator. 30gns.
Although no size is given the price suggests a substantial figure.
This page below is from the Bibliotheque Nationale copy of the Coade Catalogue of 1784.
which has several amendments written in ink.
The entry here has been amended from no. 17 Pomona to the Dying Gladiator.
https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/35774/?offset=#page=5&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
Inscribed on the Title Page - John Tasker' Book, Baker St, Portman Sq.
8 Baker St. Tasker died April 1816.
John Tasker was living at Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square
at the time of his marriage in 1789.
He was born in London in 1738. He later worked on Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, where he housed his own practice.
He worked on Capeaton Hall - https://georgiangroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GGJ_2014_11_Pears.pdf
Picture Gallery at Oxburgh Hall.
Tasker was much employed by Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle,
Dorset. There Tasker was responsible for redecorating the interior (1780-2) and
building a domed Roman Catholic chapel. In 1811, Tasker created the Greek
revival facade of Spetchley Park, Worcestershire, as well as repairing 17
Portman Square.
John Tasker, who designed and built several houses in St.
Marylebone and was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol37/pp58-76
"While the terraces which were being erected on the southern
part of the (Phillimore ) estate were still uncompleted, a different kind of
building enterprise was begun in the north. In 1808 John Tasker of St.
Marylebone, an architect and buider, and Thomas Winter of St. Jame's, a tailor,
entered into an agreement with William Phillimore to build on nineteen and a
half acres of farmland between the northern boundary of the estate and a
footpath which led from the town of Kensington to Holland House (now Duchess of
Bedford's Walk)".
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The Yale version of the Coade Catalogue has the engravings but does not include the Price List (and sizes).
I have not yet had sight of the Catalogues at the Soane Museum.
The title-plate verso of the set of plates with which this
Descriptive Catalogue is bound carries the bookplate of John Yenn, and its
title plate is inscribed in pencil, 'John Yenn RA'.
Yenn was born on 8 March 1750. He was a student at the Royal
Academy from September 1769. He was elected an associate of the academy in 1774
and a full academician in 1791. He served as treasurer of the academy from 1796
to 1820.
He was a pupil of Sir William Chambers. In the late 1770s he
succeeded Chambers as the Duke of Marlborough's architect at Blenheim
Palace, where his works included, in 1789, the design of the small
Corinthian "Temple of Health", built to celebrate the recovery of
George III from illness.[3] Nearby, in 1783, he built a new aisle at Woodstock
church. Chambers provided him with a number of other important positions: in
1780 he became the Clerk of the Works at Richmond Park, and he later held the
same position at Kensington Palace, Buckingham House and at the Royal Mews.
Copy Note -
The text is annotated in ink, usually indicating alterations
to the descriptions of the items or their prices. The last note reads, 'Since
the publication of this Catalogue above 200 articles have been added to the
Manufactory and are continually increasing from New Designs
