Swiss Scenery

James Pattison Cockburn

Verlag: London : Rodwell & Martin, 1820

Beschreibung

4to. engraved title vignette, vii, 200 p., 60 pl : ill. ; 30 cm. Bound in contemporary 3/4 red Moroccan leather. Gilt lettering to spine. Marbled boards. 5 raised bands. TEG. Marbled endpages. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Slight soiling to spine. Small start to boards at head of spine. Clean, unmarked pages. Scattered foxing. Pg135 slightly loose. Toning to verso of some plates. BRYAN, Vol.I, p.308; Perret II/1042; Weber BSL III/58. James Pattison Cockburn was an artist, author and military officer. After the Napoleonic Wars were over, Cockburn went to stay on the Continent more frequently, working for William Bernard Cooke, an English engraver and publisher. After a tour in Naples and Pompeii, he proceeded north to Northern Italy and the Swiss Alps in the period 1816-22. He produced drawings in sepia as he moved from place to place in the Alps and elsewhere in Italy and Switzerland: vast panoramas and mountain passes figured alongside scenes of streets and market places. The wealth of pictures is explained not only by Cockburn's mastery of technical means but also, according to the German composer, Louis Spohr, by his use of a machine that projected the landscape, in reduced scale, on paper. Although it is not certain that Spohr was referring to a camera lucida, the sharpness of the images in several sketches done at the time he made his remark in some measure substantiates this hypothesis, if true, it marks the first work of art using the camera lucida. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1410060070

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Swiss Scenery

Verlag: London : Rodwell & Martin

Erscheinungsdatum: 1820

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good