Selected Views in Greece with Classical Illustrations

Selected Views in Greece with Classical Illustrations. Two Volumes. First Edition.

Author: Williams, Hugh William

4to (9.5"x 11.75") 1829. 2 volumes. Half red leather with corners, double gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author/title on gilt framed black leather to the second compartment, gilt vol# on heavy gilt decorated black leather to third, heavy gilt floral framed with gilt floral device centered to all other compartments. Yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Covers rubbed with parts lacking color. Edgewear to extremities. Corners bumped and rubbed, with loss. Intermittent foxing throughout, affecting some plates. Overall, fair covers, with sixty-four very good engraved plates.

Hugh William Williams FRSE (1773–1829), known as "Grecian Williams," was a Scottish landscape painter. Between 1827 and 1829, Williams published Select Views in Greece in numbers, each containing six plates. While he painted some oil pictures, he mostly used watercolor, in broad washes of transparent color over a careful pencil design. His work was acquired by the National Gallery of Scotland and South Kensington Museum. More works can be found in the public collections of Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, Athens Benaki Museum, Birkenhead Williamson Art Gallery, Birmingham Museum, Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum, Cardiff National Museum of Wales, Dublin National Museum, National Galleries of Scotland, The British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and many other galleries. Research by The Fine Art Society shows most of his works from Greece are held in that country.

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