Sir Augustus Wall Callcott's Italian & English Landscapes. Lithographed by T.C. Dibdin.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/4760
Variant Title
Callcott's Italian And English Landscapes
Imprint
London,: Published By Henry Graves & Co., 6, Pall Mall, Publishers To Her Majesty The Queen, & H.R.H. Prince Albert,, 1847., M & N Hanhart, Lith. Printers.
Physical Description
[1], 26 pl. (incl. t.pl.); 522 mm.
Contents
[T.pl. (= pl.1), engr. dedic. and Table of Contents] - [Plates 2-26].
Responsibility Note
All plates apart from the engraved dedication are signed 'A.W. Callcott R.A.' The first plate (the title-plate) is also signed 'T.C.D.'
The work is dedicated by Henry Graves & Co. to Edward Vernon Utterson.
References
D.B. Brown, Augustus Wall Callcott [exhibition catalogue] (1981)
Summary Note
This work was published when Henry Graves was at the height of his career in London as a print-seller and fine art publisher. He published at about this time a series of lithographs after sketches by Samuel Prout, Sir David Wilkie and Clarkson Stanfield.
The plates are not captioned but are described in the Table of Contents. They show landscapes, river scenes and seascapes. In only a few cases are locations specified (and these include some in neither Italy nor Britain): 3. Dort; 5. Antwerp; 6. Italian landscape; 11. Tiber; 13. Trent in Tyrol; 17. Tyne; 21. Stafford; 22. Holland; 23. Italian landscape; 25. Moselle. The Table also gives the names of the then owners of the sketches.
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco, red cloth-covered boards, upper cover carrying pasted-on gilt-stamped cartouche (from earlier binding?) lettered 'Callcott's Italan And English landscapes'; spine lettered 'Callcott's Italian And English Landscapes'.
Landscapes (environments) - Italy - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Landscapes (representations) - Drawings - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Great Britain - 19th century