THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT.

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Folio paper size 17x24 inches- 24 large lithograph plates of the Lake District. The plates complete. They have been professionally washed as they were originally waterstained. One plate in unusable, 4 plates are repaired in the margin but usable - the remainder are good. Effectively all but one could be used as print stock. Sold with some of the text- in poor condition and wanting, at least, the title. The unusable plate is Windermere Lake. Windermere as seen from Orrest Head is hand coloured as usual and in good condition. The bibliography Abbey Scenery does not contain this book but lists a smaller octavo book of a similar name. One of the rarest and largest of the Lake District view books. Sold as a collection of lithographs as described. James Baker Pyne 1800 1870 was an English landscape painter who became a successful follower of Turner, after having been in his earlier years a member of the Bristol School of artists and a follower of Francis Danby.

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THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT.

Editor

Manchester: Thos. Agnew & sons. 1853

Fecha de publicación

1853

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