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POLLARD, James. Scenes on the Road; or, A Trip to Epsom and Back. London: R. Ackermann, 1838.
Oblong 2° (495 x 669mm). 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Harris after Pollard tipped into an album, interleaved. (Plates 1 and IV with some long, closed marginal tears, plate 1 with corner tip torn away.) Mid 20th-century quarter black morocco and green buckram, front cover with black morocco gilt label, spine gilt lettered. Original grey wrappers bound in, front wrapper with title, price of £2 2s for the set, individual print titles, imprint and date surrounded by an Etruscan border, the back printed with ‘Ackermann’s Catalogue of Standard Sporting Prints’ (wrappers laid down and extended at sides); green buckram slipcase. Provenance: purchased in Boston, 1953.
A METICULOUSLY DRAWN AND MAGNIFICENTLY COLOURED COACHING SERIES WITH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED. ‘Pollard grew up on the main northern coaching route which ran through Islington and Holloway, and became enamoured with the day's most glamorous form of transport. His intimate understanding of the subject later translated onto his canvases with a near faultless exactitude, and are an invaluable record of a tradition abruptly curtailed by the advent of the railways’ (ODNB). Here the chosen ‘scenes’ are Hyde Park Corner; the Lord Nelson Inn, Cheam where ‘Some push along with four in hand, while others drive at random,/In whisky, buggy, gig or dog-cart, curricle or tandem’; another popular wayside inn, the Cock at Sutton; and finally Kennington Gate where the ‘high life and low life’ of London again intermix: ‘A peer and a ‘prentice now dress so much the same,/You cannot tell the difference excepting by the name’. Plate 2 is watermarked 1838. Siltzer p. 222.
Oblong 2° (495 x 669mm). 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Harris after Pollard tipped into an album, interleaved. (Plates 1 and IV with some long, closed marginal tears, plate 1 with corner tip torn away.) Mid 20th-century quarter black morocco and green buckram, front cover with black morocco gilt label, spine gilt lettered. Original grey wrappers bound in, front wrapper with title, price of £2 2s for the set, individual print titles, imprint and date surrounded by an Etruscan border, the back printed with ‘Ackermann’s Catalogue of Standard Sporting Prints’ (wrappers laid down and extended at sides); green buckram slipcase. Provenance: purchased in Boston, 1953.
A METICULOUSLY DRAWN AND MAGNIFICENTLY COLOURED COACHING SERIES WITH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED. ‘Pollard grew up on the main northern coaching route which ran through Islington and Holloway, and became enamoured with the day's most glamorous form of transport. His intimate understanding of the subject later translated onto his canvases with a near faultless exactitude, and are an invaluable record of a tradition abruptly curtailed by the advent of the railways’ (ODNB). Here the chosen ‘scenes’ are Hyde Park Corner; the Lord Nelson Inn, Cheam where ‘Some push along with four in hand, while others drive at random,/In whisky, buggy, gig or dog-cart, curricle or tandem’; another popular wayside inn, the Cock at Sutton; and finally Kennington Gate where the ‘high life and low life’ of London again intermix: ‘A peer and a ‘prentice now dress so much the same,/You cannot tell the difference excepting by the name’. Plate 2 is watermarked 1838. Siltzer p. 222.
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