Principes de Paysages pour apprendre a dessiner et colorer a l'Aquarelle
LORY, Gabriel, Pere et Fils. Principes de Paysages pour apprendre a dessiner et colorer a l'Aquarelle. In four parts. Plates ca. 410 x 270 mm., in original printed wrappers with explanatory text on the inner front wrapper and containing 9 or 10 aquatint plates with a total of 37 variations, of which 27 are hand coloured. Folio, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Bance aîné, 1809.
An outstanding drawing manual by the father and son team who were responsible for some of the most celebrated collections of Swiss views. The four parts contain nine or ten aquatinted plates each, demonstrating how landscape depiction in watercolour should proceed from outline to finished work. The 37 plates show the progression through four or five stages of colouring from outline and subsequent stages to a fully coloured version. Conceived as an instructional series for advanced watercolourists, the work also succeeds as a splendid demonstration of aquatint printing. Each section has a long printed text on the inner front wrapper with the inner rear wrapper containing instructions, particularly relating to colour effects, specific to the images in that part.
This seemingly unique copy has survived in spectacular condition in the original wrappers. OCLC does not list this edition but several later issues, but with one copy each, and none in the U.S.
Item nr. 171597
Price:
$27,500.00