Author: Newell, Rev. R.H.
Title: LETTERS ON THE SCENERY OF WALES; Including a Series of Subjects for the Pencil with their Stations Determined on a General Principle: And Instructions to Pedestrian Tourists.
Description: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1821. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. 9.8 x 6 in. Watermark 1820. xiv + [i] + 192pp. T.p. vignette, 10 sepia plates comprising 5 aquatint plates and 25 etched ills. on 5 plates. Some light browning, faint inscription and light stain to flyleaf, bound in the gilt rule edged C20th dark green half calf with red cloth boards, gilt ruling and gilt lettered labels to very sl. sunned spine. ¶ Robert Hasell Newell (1788–1852), artist and author. ODNB ‘... Newell was a good amateur artist, having studied under the watercolourist William Payne (fl. 1800). ... He likewise illustrated his [above work] the drawings being engraved in aquatint by T. Sutherland.’ Abbey Scenery 524.

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