Studies of boats and coast scenery, for landscape & marine painters; . drawn and etched in imitation of chalk, by Samuel Prout. ...
Samuel Prout (Plymouth 1783 - Camberwell 1852)
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
leather, paper
Measurements
247 x 350 mm; 6 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3087906
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8] leaves . ill.. (engr.) . fol (obl.). Bound with four engravings by Thomas Sopwith dated 1828 (and with a compliments slip from the artist to Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 1797-1879); one pencil sketch of Little Swinburne; an engraving of St. Nicholas' steeple (Newcastle) dated 1825, and sixteen engravings by S. Gessner, with the manuscript inscription of J. Trevelyan (1761-1846) on the first.. Binding: Paper wrapper for the Prout engravings; the whole bound in quarter morocco, blue cloth boards, gilt tops. Binder's stamp on pastedown: Birdsall & Son Northampton.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Samuel Prout (Plymouth 1783 - Camberwell 1852)