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CUMBERLAND, George Junior (fl. 1823)
Views in Spain and Portugal taken during the campaigns of His Grace the Duke of Wellington. London: William Nicol, Cleveland-row, St. James’s, 1823.
One of only 100 copies printed, a suite of etchings capturing the British military campaign in Spain and Portugal. George Cumberland Junior was the son of the artist George Cumberland (1754-1848). Like his father, he was a painter interested in experimental printmaking and an intimate friend of William Blake He was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1816-18. He followed the British troops under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, later 1st Duke of Wellington, in Spain and Portugal at the time of the Peninsular War (1808-14). He drew the original series of views from which he derived the present lithographs during the military campaign (the dates of events depicted range from 1811-13), Another copy of the book, presented to King John VI of Portugal, is kept at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Pert.: António Alberto Marinho Duarte de Sousa PTBN: D.S.XIX-300). Cumberland also authored another series of 12 views (similar to the ones included in the present volume), published in only thirty copies circa 1813. One bound volume of this first series is kept in the British Museum (Prints and Drawing Department, 174.a.24, 1904,0711.16.1-12). Bobins I, 270; Duarte de Sousa 2, 201.
Oblong quarto (268 x 370mm). 19 lithographic views coloured by a contemporary hand, number 13 comprising of 2 plates forming a panorama, 3pp. of letterpress description of the views signed by the author. Late 19th/early 20th-century dark blue green morocco, covers with gilt frames, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the other compartments with repeated decoration in gilt, gilt edges and turn-ins, preserving printed portion of original wrapper as title mounted on front free endpaper (extremities lightly scuffed).
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