[Rarebooks] FS: Wright's Beautifully Engraved Book on The Rhine, Thomas Sully's Copy INSCRIBED to his Daughter, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1600 NET

WRIGHT, G. N. BELGIUM, THE RHINE, ITALY, GREECE, AND THE SHORES AND 
ISLANDS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF 
BEAUTIFULLY-EXECUTED ENGRAVINGS, FROM DRAWINGS ON THE SPOT, BY THOMAS 
ALLOM ... WITH HISTORICAL, CLASSICAL, AND PICTURESQUE DESCRIPTIONS. 
London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co, [1840]. First Edition. 
Two quarto (8-3/4" x 11") volumes in original gilt-decorated red cloth. 
Illustratd with 2 engraved title pages and 152 fine steel-engraved 
plates by Thomas Allom, and other artists. This set is American artist 
Thomas Sully's copy with his lengthy identical SIGNED INSCRIPTION in 
each volume to his daughter Blanch in 1868 when she was caring for him 
in his last years of life. Spines a little worn and darkened, with 
chipping to the spine tips of the second volume. Short split to the 
bottom of the front cover of the first volume with the rear cover partly 
stained with staining to some of the plates, mostly marginal. Very Good 
overall with most of the plates clean.

Thomas Sully became a professional painter at age 18 in 1801. He grew up 
in the South but moved to Philadelphia in 1806 where he remained until 
his death in 1872. Sully was one of this country's first portrait 
painters of note, and a few of his paintings, including that of 
Washington crossing the Delaware, are firmly established icons of 
American art. Among the famous Americans he painted were John Quincy 
Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In 1837–1838 he was in London to paint Queen 
Victoria at the request of Philadelphia's St. George's Society. His 
daughter Blanch assisted him as the Queen's "stand-in," modeling the 
Queen's costume when she was not available. (#004717)        $2,500.00

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