Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)

Seventeen Plates, from: A Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris

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Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
Seventeen Plates, from: A Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris
soft-ground etchings printed in brown-black, 1802, proofs before the plates were aquatinted by F. C. Lewis, most with margins, with creasing, tears and some paper losses, surface dirt to some of the sheets, loose, with binding holes along the left edges
S. 14¼ x 21½ in. (355 x 555 mm.) (17)
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Please note that this lot has 17 plates and not 16 as is stated in the printed catalogue

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The present group of etchings was executed following Girtin's only trip abroad. He left for Paris in November 1801 and remained there until May 1802, when he returned to London. Paris had only recently been made accessible to the English traveller again by the signing of the Peace of Amiens and Girtin's work from this trip consists principally of twenty views, based on his on-the-spot sketches, which were subsequently etched by Girtin himself, and published postumously in 1803 by his brother John Girtin as A Selection of the most Picturesque Views in Paris and its Environs.

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