WAROCQUÉ A[rthur] (1835-1880)

Lot 288
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 288 | WAROCQUÉ A[rthur] (1835-1880)
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
WAROCQUÉ A[rthur] (1835-1880)

Souvenirs de voyage en Suède, Norwège et Laponie. Brussels: Simonau & Toovey, 1857.

Extremely rare and seldom seen at auction, this beautiful suite of prints illustrate views from a voyage to Sweden, Norway and Lapland. Arthur Warocqué, the successful Belgium industrialist, captured these scenes during a trip he took across Scandinavia, alongside his brother Léon, at the young age of 22. He had developed an interest in drawing while studying under Belgian illustrator Paul Lauters (1806-1876). However, his artistic career was permanently halted in 1868 when the death of Léon left him the sole heir of the family business. Warocqué financed the publishing of the set of prints and had them bound into albums which were then offered to his relatives or to various prominent persons, and because of this, only a very limited number of copies exist. Bobins V, 1705.



Oblong folio (40 x 556mm). Half-title printed in gold, engraved pictorial title page on tinted background and 20 chromolithographic plates on tinted background (very light marginal finger soiling to half title, plates fresh and clean). Original green cloth boards, covers decorated in gilt and blind, with double fillet frame and gilt garlands enclosing a central motif, smooth spine lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt fillets and longitudinal decoration (extremities lightly rubbed, bottom edge of front cover sunned, repairs to spine).





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