Print Description
Views in Scotland Drawn from Nature by -, And Chiefly selected from Scenery Described by Sir Walter Scott. In a Series of Twenty-four Prints. By Francis Nicholson. Published by Engelmann, Graf, Coindel & Company, 1827.
In a very early complete ed. published in 6 installments. In it’s original blue wrappers (6) with title and 4 plates ea. (=24 total)
Size pages c. 34x48cm.
Condition: Good; wrappers damaged, creased; plates fine; one plate with vertical tear, backed; occasional soiling or dust staining.
Early crayon style lithographs on wove paper (watermark J. Whatman 1827).
Francis Nicholason (1753-1844) was a Yorkshire painter and watercolorist.
Godefroy Engelmann I (1788-1839) was a pioneer Lithographic printer, famed ‘Körner’ (grinder) for crayon-lithographs and patentee of chromolithography. Originally from Colmar; trained in Munich; set up press in Paris in June 1816. He improved lithography, particularly by developing lithographic wash in 1819. In 1825 he created a new company in association with Jérémie Graf and Pierre Thierry and named ‘Société Engelmann et Cie’. In 1826 an annex company is founded in London and named ‘Société Engelmann, Graf, Coindet et Cie’, which was dissolved in 1833. Then Engelmann returned to Mulhouse and created the company ‘Société Engelmann, père et fils’.
