Author: Batty, Captain.
Title: WELSH SCENERY. From Drawings.
Description: London: John Murray, 1823. 1st Ed. [viii] + 35 engraved plates each with letterpress leaf. Some light browning and spotting, marbled e.ps., double gilt rule edged skivver with marbled boards, edges rubbed with sl. paper loss, gilt ruled spine with gilt lettering, sl. rubbed and faded. ¶ Robert Batty (1789–1848), army officer and artist. ODNB ‘... Acknowledged as ‘an amateur artist of considerable merit’ (Bryan, Painters, 11) ... Among artists of the English school, Samuel Redgrave concluded that ‘his industry was great, his works carefully and truthfully drawn, his architecture correct in its proportions and outlines, and his merits as a topographical draughtsman deserve recognition’ (Redgrave, 31) ...’

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