LITHOGRAPHY. [TURNER (Dawson)] Outlines in Lithography, from a Small Collection of Pictures. , Yarmouth: For Private Circulation, 1840.

First Edition, folio, [4],94,[4]pp., one of 100 copies for private circulation, 51 lithographic plates printed by Graf of London and text by C. Sloman of Yarmouth, dedicatory letter to his son, Gurney Turner (1813-1848) signed Dawson Turner, Yarmouth, 1st May 1840, finely rebound in period half calf, morocco label, spine gilt. The volume is a descriptive catalogue of the pictures in Dawson Turner's own house. Most of these were sold at Christie's in 79 lots in May, 1852; the remainder were sold at the end of the Printed Books Sale of 1859, lots 2527-49. A few pictures were retained by members of the family. The lithographic plates, outline copies of the pictures in Dawson Turner's house, are the work of his daughters Mary Anne and Hannah Sarah; the descriptions of the pictures are by his wife; and the somewhat discursive commentaries are by himself. The collection included works by Giovanni Bellini, Jan Breughel, Agostino and Annibal Carracci, Cuyp, Hobbema, Greuze, Thomas Phillips, Gaspard Poussin, Rubens, Jan Steen, David Teniers the Younger, Titiano Vecelli, Sir David Wilke, Richard Wilson, and seven pictures by Crome. (Book ref. 28065)  £660.00

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