Five original drawings, pencil, being highly detailed Italian landscapes, approx 140 x 215 mm each, matted and framed. WITH: A Picturesque Tour of Italy, from Drawings made in 1816-1817, by James Hakewill Arch't. London: John Murray 1820. Folio. Half-title. Additional engraved title and 63 plates. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Minor spotting and scuffing. FIVE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS: A SOURCE FOR J.M.W. TURNER. James Hakewill was an extensive traveler. The sketches for his Tour of Italy are arranged according to the route of John Chetwood Eustance's A Tour of Italy, 1813, the primary guide of this period. In 1818 Hakewill asked Turner to make watercolors of twenty of his Italian sketches to be engraved for a deluxe publication, even though Turner did not himself make a tour of the Italy until 1819. The original drawings present are: "The Roman Forum from the Tower of the Capitol," 1816; "Entrance to Rome by the Piazza del Popolo," December 1816; "St Peter's and part of Rome from Monte Mario," August 1816; "The Roman Forum," January 1816; and "Rome from the Farnese Gardens," February 1817.
Five original drawings, pencil, being highly detailed Italian landscapes, approx 140 x 215 mm each, matted and framed. WITH: A Picturesque Tour of Italy, from Drawings made in 1816-1817, by James Hakewill Arch't. London: John Murray 1820. Folio. Half-title. Additional engraved title and 63 plates. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Minor spotting and scuffing. FIVE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS: A SOURCE FOR J.M.W. TURNER. James Hakewill was an extensive traveler. The sketches for his Tour of Italy are arranged according to the route of John Chetwood Eustance's A Tour of Italy, 1813, the primary guide of this period. In 1818 Hakewill asked Turner to make watercolors of twenty of his Italian sketches to be engraved for a deluxe publication, even though Turner did not himself make a tour of the Italy until 1819. The original drawings present are: "The Roman Forum from the Tower of the Capitol," 1816; "Entrance to Rome by the Piazza del Popolo," December 1816; "St Peter's and part of Rome from Monte Mario," August 1816; "The Roman Forum," January 1816; and "Rome from the Farnese Gardens," February 1817.
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