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CARTWRIGHT, Joseph (?1789-1829)

Lot 234
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 234 | CARTWRIGHT, Joseph (?1789-1829)
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CARTWRIGHT, Joseph (?1789-1829)

[Selections of the Costume of Albania and Greece with explanatory quotations from the poems of Lord Byron and Gally Knight]. London: R. Havell, 1822.

One of the finest of Greek costume books, beautifully hand-coloured. The British marine painter, Joseph Cartwright was based in Corfu as paymaster-general to the British troops from 1815 and from there travelled extensively about the Ionian Islands, Greece and the surrounding regions. Although from 1823 he dedicated himself almost exclusively to marine painting, and was employed as marine painter by the Duke of Clarence, he first completed this detailed collection of the different regional costumes inspired by the works of the Romantic poet Byron and Henry Gally Knight, author of several Oriental tales. The Ali Pacha plate is fully coloured including backgrounds. Abbey Travel 134; Bobins IV, 1211; Colas 544; Tooley 131; Vinet 2344; not in Atabey, Blackmer, Droulia or Lipperheide.



Folio (534 x 365mm). 12 aquatint plates by Havell after Cartwright, all coloured by a contemporary hand and each mounted on leaves with grey wash border (without the title-page; plate 1 of Ali Pacha with title, cut from another plate, pasted into lower margin, with imprint cut and pasted on verso, possibly indicating this copy was a proof printed before letters). Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands richly gilt in compartments to a diapered pattern (spine worn at head and tail, corners worn, covers scuffed). Provenance: William Barker (engraved armorial bookplate).





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Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
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