Category: History - British
The Editor desires to express his thanks to the following Collectors who have kindly lent their prints for reproduction in this volume:--Mrs. Julia Frankau, Mr. Frederick Behrens, Major E. F. Coates, M.P., Mr. Basil Dighton, Mr. J. H. Edwards, and Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, P....
The Editor desires to express his thanks to the following Collectors who have kindly lent their prints for reproduction in this volume:--Mrs. Julia Frankau, Mr. Frederick Behren...
2. Part 2His opportunity came, however, when he met with Colonel Sir John Guise. An enthusiastic connoisseur of art, a collector of pictures (he left his collection to Christchurch Colle...
3. Part 3These colour-prints were done with a single printing, and the plate had to be freshly inked for each impression. The printer would have a water-colour drawing to work from, and...
4. Part 4Then there was William Hamilton, a prolific and prevalent artist. Sent to Italy in his youth by Robert Adam, the architect, he returned with a sort of Italianate style of storie...
5. Part 5No wonder all the engravers were agog to make copper-plates from his quickly finished paintings. That charming spontaneity of picturesque impression, with luminous harmony of to...
6. Part 6Coloured aquatints were now becoming the rage. That this charming and delicate process, producing various gradations of tone by successive “bitings” with acid through a porous,...