William Daniell's Voyage around Great Britain.



 William Daniell's Voyage around Great Britain.

Our latest listing contains over 170 stunning coloured aquatint views from William Daniell's Voyage Round Great Britain.

William Daniell (1769-1837).

On the death of his father, William was taken to London to be with his uncle Thomas Daniell, an artist and member of the newly founded Royal Academy of Arts. He and his uncle spent the period 1785 to 1794 travelling around India, from which, on their return to England, they produced a series of aquatint prints which were published under the title Oriental Scenery.


Mausolee du Sultan Chusero.
Daniell del. F. Hegi Sculp. [Ref: 18015]


Mausolee de Mucdoom.
Daniell del. Aubertin Sculpt. [Ref: 18013]

William Daniell was a gifted artist in oils and watercolours. He excelled in transferring his pictures to prints using the aquatint technique. He was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1807, and a Royal Academician in 1822. The artistic work for which he is best known is, A Voyage Round Great Britain, which was published over the period 1814 to 1825.

He spent several years wandering round the coast of Great Britain drawing an amazing quantity of
atmospheric scenes from the land & sea. This selection runs from Land’s End, through North Cornwall, North Devon, the coast of Wales, Lancashire, the Lakes, Scotland and down the East Coast to Essex. Please use the following link to see the entire catalogue:


http://www.grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?WADbSearch1=Submit&recent_stock=1



We have also selected some of the finest prints from the series:



St. Andrews, Fifeshire. [Ref: 36179]




Liverpool, taken from the opposite side of the River. [Ref: 36129]


In Fingal's Cave, Staffa. [Ref: 36260]
Kirkudbright. [Ref: 36120]
Edinburgh, from the Castle. [Ref: 36249]
Steam boat on the Clyde near Dumbarton. [Ref: 36282]
Whitby, Yorkshire. [Ref: 35967]
Entrance to Fingal's Cave, Staffa. [Ref: 36262]

A special item from the collection, is an extremely rare auction catalogue of 1831 in which Daniell
sold his stock of 320 copper plates for the 'Voyage'  and his other publications, six years before he died. This represents a previously-unknown event in the history of the 'Voyage' plates, now in the Tate Gallery.


[Southgate, Grimston & Wells, auction catalogue.]
[Ref: 17478]

We also have several plates from Daniell's two series, Views of London & London's New Docks, which are superb examples of pure aquatint, unsullied by additional line engraving:

A View of the Bridge Now Building over the Thames at Vauxhall. [Ref: 23091]

An Elevated View of the New Dock in Wapping. [Ref: 7654]

Brunswick Dock on the Thames at Blackwall. [Ref: 23321]




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