Christopher Finch - Nineteenth-Century Watercolours

New York, Abbeville Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition copy of Christopher Finch's study of nineteenth-century watercolour painting, filled with bright colour illustrations. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with 365 reproductions of paintings, 255 of which are in colour. Collated complete. From the topographical draftsmanship of Francis Place and Paul Sandby, through the romanticism of Delacroix, the mysterious vistas of Caspar David Friedrich, the sublimity of Turner, the penetrating realism of Eakins, and the early-modernism of Cezanne, Christopher Finch tells the fascinating story of nineteenth-century watercolour painting. This book is a feast for the eyes, being richly illustrated with many colour reproductions. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth and dust wrapper are both in excellent condition, though the spine of the wrap is slightly sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: J. M. W. Turner; William Blake; Rex Whistler; Renoir; et al. Fine/Fine.

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