[Scrap album with plates after Henry Bellenden Ker.]
[n.d., c.1812.
Folio scrap album with 42 plates pasted in at corners, largest 205 x 340mm (8 x 13½"). Bookseller label of J Stabling Gt Yarmouth on front sheet. Boards and 1 plate loose.
A collection of landscapes: 38 are by Henry Bellenden Ker, including views of Wimbledon Common & Park, Hampton Wick and Windsor, and his grotesque figure with a bird's-skull head playing a trumpet. Also included are 18 etchings after Smith of Chichester etc. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871) was a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and an amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
BM 1853.01172.172
[Ref: 60830] £1,200.00
Folio scrap album with 42 plates pasted in at corners, largest 205 x 340mm (8 x 13½"). Bookseller label of J Stabling Gt Yarmouth on front sheet. Boards and 1 plate loose.
A collection of landscapes: 38 are by Henry Bellenden Ker, including views of Wimbledon Common & Park, Hampton Wick and Windsor, and his grotesque figure with a bird's-skull head playing a trumpet. Also included are 18 etchings after Smith of Chichester etc. (Charles) Henry Bellenden Ker (1780-1871) was a lawyer active in the Boundary Commission just before the Reform Act of 1852 and an amateur artist. As a young man he was patron to William Blake but Blake had to take legal steps to get paid.
BM 1853.01172.172
[Ref: 60830] £1,200.00