BRIERLY, Sir Oswald Walters (1817-1894)

Lot 285
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Lot 285 | BRIERLY, Sir Oswald Walters (1817-1894)
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BRIERLY, Sir Oswald Walters (1817-1894)

Marine and Coast Sketches of the Black Sea, Sea of Azoff & c. London: Colnaghi, 1856.

Rare first edition of naval lithographic plates after celebrated English marine painter Oswald Walters Brierly. Brierly had extensive naval experience having been invited to take up an observational post in 1855 during the second year of the Crimean War (1853-1894). In 1854, he held a similar position on the Admiral Keppel’s flagship, HMS St Jean D’Acre. Stationed in the Baltic, the Illustrated News of London had commissioned the artist to produce sketches of his surroundings, the landscape and the naval operations. His subsequent work in the Black Sea, of which this collection of lithographs is the result, 'cemented his reputation as the premier graphic naval historian in the Crimean War' (Bobins). His sketches were not only diligent in their visual delineations of naval vessels, they equally acted as valuable topographical and cultural records; the depiction of Trebizond (plate 9) chronicles the ancient Persian port, the dramatic architecture recalling its early history as one of the three Byzantine Greek successor states to the Byzantine Empire. Walters' skill and reputation earned him Royal patronage and he was invited to make sketches of Queen Victoria's naval review at Spithead aboard the royal yacht, Victoria and Albert. He later accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on several cruises and was eventually appointed marine painter to the Queen and the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1874. Walters' accolades continued as he was later appointed Curator of the Painted Hall at Greenwich and eventually knighted in 1885. Abbey Travel 240; Bobins V, 1572.



Folio (554 x 358mm). Chromolithographic title-page and 9 (of 12) plates (lacking 3 plates, split at foot of gutter affecting plate 1 but without loss, occasional spotting confined to margins, heaviest to plates 7 and 8). Contemporary brown half calf ruled in gilt, over pebble-grained red cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, edges gilt (extremities rubbed, concentrated to spine, calf surface chipped).





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