'A Golfers Gallery' by Old Masters Introduced by Bernard Darwin

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'A Golfers Gallery' by Old Masters Introduced by Bernard Darwin

With an Introduction by Bernard Darwin, this book then illustrates to it's readers 18 full-page mounted color plates. The paintings depicting golf or golf relatives in different forms are on card-stock leaves. Images are depictions from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. This was published in Great Britain by Country Life LTd in 1927.
The book measures 16" x 13 1/2" and the illustrations include the following:

1. St. Nicholas’s Day by Jan Steen (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
2. A Girl with a Golf Club by an Unknown Netherlands Artist. Painted in 1595 (At Holdenby)
3. Mr. William Innes, Captain, The Royal Blackheath Golf Club, 1778 by Lemuel Francis Abbott, R.A.
4. Mr. Francis Bennoch, Captain, The Royal Bkackheath Golf Club, 1860-1861. From an oil painting at Blackheath (At the Club)
5. Pleasure on Ice by Esaias Van de Velde (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
6. A Frost Scene by Adriaen Van de Velde. Painted 1668 (At the National Gallery, London)
7. Winter Landscape by Aert Van Der Neer (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
8. Mr. John Taylor, Captain, The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers by Sir John Watson Gordon, P.R.S.A. (At the Club House, Muirfield, Gullane)
9. Mr. Henry Callender, Captain-General, The Royal Blackheath Golf Club 1807 by Lemuel Francis Abbott, R.A. (At the Club)
10. A Golfing Lady by Wybrand De Geest (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
11. A Young Dutch Golfer of the Seventeenth Century by A. Cuyp, 1650 (At West Dean Park, Chichester)
12. William St. Clair of Roslin, Captain, The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, 1761 by Sir George Chalmers (At the Hall of the Royal Company of Archers, Edinburgh)
13. The Macdonalds painted about 1750 (At Armadale Castle, Skye)
14. The Golf Players by Pieter de Hooch (In the Collection of the Hon. Mrs. Ronald Greville)
15. River Scene in Winter by Aert Van Der Neer (At the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
16. An Ice Scene by Antoine Van Straelen (In the collection of Mr. Frits Lugt Maartensdijk)
17. Winter Landscape by Esaias Van de Velde (At the Mauritshuis, The Hague)
18. “Old Alick,” Hole Cutter at Blackheath by Mr. Gallen of Greenwich School (At the Club)

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