The prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809) : a catalogue raisonné

The prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809) : a catalogue raisonné

London ; Turnhout, Beligum : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2015.

339 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 30 cm.

741.91 S227 2015

(OCoLC)929592961

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 ... 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--book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
L2016M168

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