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The prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809) : a catalogue raisonné / Ann V. Gunn.
Creator:
Gunn, Ann V., author.
Title:
The prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809) : a catalogue raisonné / Ann V. Gunn.
Published/Created:
London : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2015]
©2015
Physical Description:
339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 30 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
NJ18.Sa56 G86 2015 (LC) Oversize
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13026923
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Born in Nottingham, Paul Sandby (1731-1809) is best known as a founder member of the Royal Academy and a prominent figure in the development of British watercolour painting. However, he was also one of the most prolific and inventive printmakers in eighteenth-century Britain. From his early years as a draughtsman for the military survey of Scotland, and later from his extensive tours throughout England and Wales, he depicted the people, towns, castles and landscapes of the nation. He provided the public with images of their country which contributed to the emerging appreciation of native landscape, to antiquarian interests, and to the development of picturesque tours within the British Isles. Although he never travelled abroad, he reproduced the work of fellow artists who had, tapping into the Grand Tour market with prints of Ionian antiquities, Neapolitan landscapes and the Roman carnival. But his work encompassed more than landscape; he could move from the pastoral humour of illustrations to Allan Ramsay's poem The Gentle Shepherd, through the urban realism of his Cries of London to the merciless satire of his attacks on William Hogarth. From the 1740s to the 1780s he made over 380 prints: engravings, etchings, soft ground etchings and finally aquatints, a medium in which he was a pioneer. Aquatint enabled printmakers to reproduce the effects of watercolour paintings; Sandby gave the process its name and developed varied techniques which allowed the exact reproduction of the artist's brush strokes, producing some of the most beautiful prints ever made in this medium.
Subject Terms:
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809 -- Catalogues raisonnés.
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