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Kennion, E

An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples

1844

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An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples /, London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1844, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
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  • Creator

    Kennion, E

  • Title(s)

    An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.

  • Additional Title(s)

    Essay on trees in landscape
    Attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples
    Kennion's essay on trees
    Essay on trees

  • Published/Created

    London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1844.

  • Physical Description

    x, 48 p., L, [II] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 36 cm.

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    NC810 .K46 1844+ Oversize
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • Copyright Status

    Public Domain

  • Full YALE Library Record

    https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9933510223408651

  • Classification

    Books

  • Notes

    Republication of the 1815 edition with a paste-on cancel imprint for Bohn with the statement: "This copy has, beside the usual number of fifty plates, four large unpublished landscapes by Kennion, and six picturesque studies of tress, beautifully etched by H. W. Williams. In all sixty plates.''
    Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet street.
    Imprint from label on t.p.
    Spine title: Kennion's essay on trees.
    Illustrations by Edward Kennion and Hugh William Williams.
    Williams' plates have engraved section title: Six etchings of local subjects from nature by H. W. Williams.
    Engraved t.p.
    BAC: Bound in blind-stamped green publisher's cloth. Inscribed on verso of first free end-paper: R. D., 22 September 1877. London.
    BAC: Copy appears to have two addtional, possibly extraneous plates (not included in pagination) One is numbered XIX, is dated 1796, by Kennion and bound following actual plate XIX. The other follows section title to Williams' plates.
    BAC: 1815 pencilled on t.p.

  • Subject Terms

    Bensley, T. -- Printer. |
    Bohn Henry. G., -- Publisher. |
    Botanical illustration -- Great Britain -- 19th century. |
    Drawing books -- Specimens. |
    Landscape drawing, English. |
    Plants in art. |
    R. D. -- Autograph, 1877. |
    Trees in art.

  • Form/Genre

    Aquatints -- 1844. | Soft-ground etchings -- 1844.

  • Contributors

    Kennion, E. | Williams, Hugh William, 1773–1829

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