Sketching from Nature in Water-Colours
London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, circa 1870. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt lettering and gilt lettering and illustration; 36 pp.; 16 unnumbered leaves of plates; richly illustrated. REFERENCE COPY ONLY (Ex-Library with accompanying paraphrenalia; boards are detached from the textblock, which is broken; interior is clean with light toning and occasional smudging; textblock edges have some chipping.). Item #198805
Contents include: On colours, paper, and brushes -- Group of fir trees, drawn from nature -- On Loch Lomond -- Glenfinlas -- The first peep of Grasmere, from the Keswick Road -- At Luss on Loch Lomond -- Hut at Gorphwysfa, North Wales -- Crummock Water in Cumberland [2] -- A spur of Ben Lomond [2] -- A study of stones on the north side of Taliaris, near Llandilo, South Wales -- Study of a group of oak trees near Eltham, Kent -- Scene between Capel Curig and Llyn Ogwen, at the head of Nant Frangon, N.W.
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