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Barker, Benjamin, 1776–1838

Forty-eight aquatint colored engravings

1824

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Forty-eight aquatint colored engravings /, Bath : Clark, Printer, 1824, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.




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  • Creator

    Barker, Benjamin, 1776–1838

  • Title(s)

    Forty-eight aquatint colored engravings / by Theodore Fielding, from a work containing forty-eight subjects of landscape scenery, principally views in and near Bath, painted in oil by Benjamin Barker.

  • Additional Title(s)

    At head of title: Fine arts

  • Published/Created

    Bath : Clark, Printer, 1824.

  • Physical Description

    48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    DA690.B3 B37 1824+ Oversize
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • Copyright Status

    Copyright Not Evaluated

  • Classification

    Books

  • Notes

    "Published by subscription in 1824."--Title page.
    "A number of booksellers seem to have bound and published these plates under different title pages. I have seen such title-pages for ten and twenty aquatints by A.E. Binns of Bath, both 1821 ... and another for forty-eight plates"--Cf. Abbey.
    All plates mounted on original brown paper, and framed with an ink rule; all titles numbered and printed on slips pasted at foot of the mount. Numbering from 1-48. No imprints or signatures.
    Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 76
    Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 45
    BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in later half red morocco with marbled boards by Bayntun, Bath.
  • Subject Terms

    Bath (England) -- Pictorial works. |
    Bayntun -- Binder. |
    Clark -- Printer. |
    Landscapes -- England -- Bath.

  • Form/Genre

    Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1824.

  • Contributors

    Barker, Benjamin, 1776–1838, ill. | Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851, engraver.

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