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William Frederick Wells & John Laporte............................................................Painter-Etchers.Peintres-Graveurs.Watercolourists

(London 1762 -10.11.1836 Mitcham/Surrey) (1761 - 8.7.1839 London)

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Gainsborough / Wells & Laporte

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A COLLECTION OF PRINTS

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

English Scenery

FROM THE DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES OF

THO'S. GAINSBOROUGH , R.A.

IN THE VARIOUS COLLECTIONS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BARONESS LUCAS; VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON;

W.ALEXANDER, ESQ.;GEORGE HIBBERT, ESQ; DR. MONRO

AND SEVERAL OTHER GENTLEMEN.

LONDON:

ENGRAVED BY W.F. WELLS AND JOHN LAPORTE;

AND PUBLISHED BY H.R.YOUNG, 56, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1819

cf. SAUR BBI, Thieme-Becker, Nagler XXI (1851) 275 [erroneously John]

cf. Redgrave Dictionary of Painters, Engravers etc. 1878

cf. dito Dictionary of Art 1878

cf. Roget History of the Old Watercolour Society 1891

cf. Dictionary of National Biography 60 (1900)

cf. Bryan's Dictionary of Paint. etc. 5 (1905)

cf. Cundall History of British Water Colour Painting 1908

cf. Graves Dictionary of Art 1895, dito Royal Academy IV (1906); dito British Institution 1908

cf. S.T.Prideaux Aquatint Engraving 1909

cf. Binyon Catalogue of Drawings etc. British Museum III, Catalogue National Gallery of British Art .Victoria & Albert Museum II, (1908) 211

cf. The Connoisseur 66 (1923) 71 f.

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GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas. A Collection of Prints, Illustrative of English Scenery, from the Drawings and Sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R. A. in the various Collections of … Engraved and Published by W.F. Wells

and J. Laporte, London, H. R. Young, 1819

Folio, ff. [2], 60 soft-ground etchings (37 tinted by hand); light foxing to title, blank margins occasionally a little spotted; contemporary half green calf, rebacked to style and with red morocco label, marbled edges by Lancaster (?) & Son, Worcester, (corners bumped and worn, light foxing to title),

‘Unknown, except to his intimate friends, during his lifetime, Gainsborough's landscape drawings form a most remarkable repertory of picturesque motives, which had a great influence after his death. This was partly due to the series of sixty plates admirably engraved by W. F. Wells and J. Laporte of a very free group of them, which were published by Boydell’ (Waterhouse, p. 49) Early re-issue of these beautiful facsimiles with 37 plates tinted by hand. The dedication leaf is watermarked 1818 and bears the variant imprint of H. R. Young (both the Abbey and BL copies with the - presumably later - imprint of John and Josiah Boydell; Abbey’s copy is watermarked 1820-21).

Abbey, Life, 203; Ray, Illustrator and Book in England, 74 (citing the original 1805 issue, though noting the present issue). see E. Waterhouse, Gainsborrough Hulton, 1958.

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