Linton

1860 · rif. 161867 — . 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. LINTON W.J. Thirty Pictures of Deceased British Artists engraved expressly for The Art-Union of London by W.J. Linton. Letterpress title-page and 30 engraved plates numbered I-XXX with guard sheets. Bright original dark green gilt lettered cloth portfolio with all four linen ties intact minor wear to head and tail. Slight marginal wear to several plates and to a few of the guard sheets but generally in very good clean condition. 4to 320mm x 250mm. 1860. ~ "These exhibit the engraver at his prime and nothing could possibly be finer than the exquisite rendering of this series which includes characteristic examples of Sir T. Lawrence Constable Gainsborough Sir J. Reynolds Wilkie Blake Bonington Hogarth Morland Turner and other masters of the English School of Painters. Three of them are drawn as well as engraved by Mr. Linton namely Death's Door after Blake afterwards printed as the frontispiece to Jackson and Chatto's History of Wood-Engraving Nature after Lawrence and Niobe after Richard Wilson." Ref: Kitton Fred G. "William James Linton Engraver Poet and Political Writer." The English Illustrated Magazine. 8 April 1891. . hardcover