Sketches and views of a tour around Wales

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An album of twenty-four topographical pencil sketches, including named-view Welsh topography, a few monogrammed M.A.H., each landscape accompanied by contemporary - and presumably original - manuscript annotations, philosophising on aesthetic ideals or didactic notes on artistic technique: 'When tender and misty distances prevail, the foreground objects should relieve with forcible shadows and warm lights...'This was evidently completed on a tour of North Wales, as views include: Caernarfon, Conwy, Llangollen, Dolgellau, and the ruined Abbey of Valle Crucis. Also includes - possibly in another hand - tiny architectural details from the towers of St. Dunstan in the East and Billingsgate, a single word in Sanskrit, and the study of a woman's arm in Indian dress.

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Unique album of topographical pencil sketches, with explicatory manuscript text referring to the techniques used; a little toned; pp. [62], 8vo; lower-gutter tears with some movement, the images not affected, contemporary calf, rebacked, remnant of a blind roll to the boards, rather rubbed, loss of leather at bottom of upper board and spine end.

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