A practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the Rev. Wm. Gilpin ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring, and painting in water colours; by John Heaviside Clark.

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PML 145725

Creator

Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.

Published

London : Published for the Proprietors, by Priestley and Weale ... and C. Knight, 1824.

Credit line

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes

"Printed by J. Hayes, Dartmouth Street, Westminster."
Illustrated with 30 hand colored aquatint landscapes by J.H. Clark after Gilpin.
Originally published by Edward Orme in 1811. The 1824 edition is a reissue of the plates with a new title page, published for 'the Proprietors'. Cf. Bicknell.

Description

vi, [34] p., 30 leaves of plates : col. ill. (aquatint, hand col.) ; 40 cm

Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Binding

1/2 red morocco.

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