SKETCHES AT HOME AND ABROAD

PROUT, SAMUEL

Verlag: London. Hullmandel. no date circa 1840, 1840

Beschreibung

Folio 14x11 inches- leather bound in a simple half red morocco over marbled boards. Bound without the title. 48 FINE LITHOGRAPH PLATES printed by Hullmandel after drawings by Samuel Prout. INDIA PAPER EDITION - all plates on India paper. Numbered 1-24 and 1-24. SIGNED on the endpaper and one blank leaf - ISABELLE ANNE PROUT, Demark Hill, 1852. Prout's daughter. A good clean association copy. Armorial bookplate of Horsman Coles. A topographical collection of European and British views - the plates for - Hints on the Acquirement of Freedom of Execution and Breadth of Effect in Landscape Painting. Samuel Prout (1783 1852) was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. John Ruskin, whose work often emulated Prout's, wrote in 1844, Sometimes I tire of Turner, but never of Prout. Prout is often compared to his contemporaries; Turner, Gainsborough, Constable and Ruskin, whom he taught. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6388

Bibliografische Details

Titel: SKETCHES AT HOME AND ABROAD

Verlag: London. Hullmandel. no date circa 1840

Erscheinungsdatum: 1840

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers