View of Mary Port Harbour Shipyard Cumberland by William Daniell, Original aquatint print, fine hand watercolour 2024 c1816 Antique

Scarce original aquatint
Mary Port Harbour Shipyard Cumberland May 1st 1816

Drawn and Engraved by William Daniell
Published Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London

An original superb coloured aquatint, with large margins, dated in the plate.
Some boarder sheet tears to bottom edge repaired on verso, some old soft creasing, image good

Aquatint image and colour remains good
Engraved Plate area approx. 9" x 12" (230mm x 300mm)

From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'. William Daniell's A Voyage Round Great Britain was the most ambitious of the many topographical publications produced in England during the early nineteenth century and its plates are a highpoint in 2024 the history of aquatint engraving.

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