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POLLARD, James (1797-1867). Scenes during the Snow Storm, December 1836. London: Ackermann & Co., 1 February 1836.
4 hand-coloured lithographs, heightened with gum arabic, by G.B. Campion after Pollard, 278 x 409mm sheets. (Titles of plates 2 and 4 shaved, some matt-burn.) Tipped onto guards in 20th-century half citron morocco, morocco title label on front cover; cloth slipcase. Provenance: acquired from Lucerne, 1937.
A SCARCE SERIES commemorating the exceptionally severe snow of December 1836. The Spectator reported that 'snow continued to fall without intermission' from Friday to Monday night when 'it had spread over the greater part of the country in all directions'. The plates, which portray marooned coaches in a huge depth of snow, shivering humans and equally unhappy horses, are entitled: 'The Liverpool Mail in a Snow-Drift' -- 'The Davenport Mail, assisted by Six Fresh Post-Horses, crossing the Downs near Amesbury' -- 'The Birmingham Mail Fast in the Snow' -- 'The Louth Mail Stopt by the Snow'. Mellon/Snelgrove 58; Siltzer, p. 222.
4 hand-coloured lithographs, heightened with gum arabic, by G.B. Campion after Pollard, 278 x 409mm sheets. (Titles of plates 2 and 4 shaved, some matt-burn.) Tipped onto guards in 20th-century half citron morocco, morocco title label on front cover; cloth slipcase. Provenance: acquired from Lucerne, 1937.
A SCARCE SERIES commemorating the exceptionally severe snow of December 1836. The Spectator reported that 'snow continued to fall without intermission' from Friday to Monday night when 'it had spread over the greater part of the country in all directions'. The plates, which portray marooned coaches in a huge depth of snow, shivering humans and equally unhappy horses, are entitled: 'The Liverpool Mail in a Snow-Drift' -- 'The Davenport Mail, assisted by Six Fresh Post-Horses, crossing the Downs near Amesbury' -- 'The Birmingham Mail Fast in the Snow' -- 'The Louth Mail Stopt by the Snow'. Mellon/Snelgrove 58; Siltzer, p. 222.
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