1991 Nineteenth-Century Watercolours

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with 365 reproductions of paintings, 255 of which are in colour. Collated complete. From the topographical draftsmanship of Francis Place and Paul Sandby, through the romanticism of Delacroix, the mysterious vistas of Caspar David Friedrich, the sublimity of Turner, the penetrating realism of Eakins, and the early-modernism of Cezanne, Christopher Finch tells the fascinating story of nineteenth-century watercolour painting. This book is a feast for the eyes, being richly illustrated with many colour reproductions.