Visions of India: The Sketchbooks of William Simpson 1859-62
Topsfield, MA: Salem House Publishers, 1986. Hardcover. Black cloth with black lettering on spine. Color-illustrated dust jacket with dark orange spine with black lettering. vi; 138 pp. 110 illustrations, 58 in color. VG-/VG-. Minor edge wear to dust jacket and covers. Owner's sticker on ffep, otherwise clean and tight. Item #167750
ISBN: 9780881622058
"William Simpson was one of the most distinguished and original topographical painters of the second half of the nineteenth century...In 1859 he went to India to prepare for a great projected work covering the life, landscapes and monuments of the country, and over the next two and a half years he travelled all over the sub-continent. The sketches he produced are wonderfully fresh, evoking the people, costumes, scenery, temples and palaces of a rich and diverse culture. This book not only traces Simpson's journey through a selection of the best of his sketches in pencil and wash, but also includes a number of the fully worked-up watercolours that he painted from them." -- dj flap.
OCLC: 14707856
Price: $29.97