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Lot 119
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,500
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COCKBURN, James Pattison, Lt-Col. 60th regiment (after). -- Ackermann, printer. The Falls of Niagara. This View of Table Rock and Horse-Shoe-Fall by C. Hunt. 1833. -- The Falls of Niagara. This View from the Upper Bank English Side. 1833.
2 aquatints with hand-coloring, comprising plates 1 and 4 from the set of 6 views of Niagara, sheets 528/533 x 718/725 mm, plate 1 with small surface abrasion touching letter lower margin, old mat burn, some browning; plate 4 wtih 8 1/2-in. tear crossing image with old repair verso, upper left corner torn with loss to margin, old mat burn, each matted and framed
"[The] set of six Niagara images published abroad in the 1830s -- the series of aquatint engravings after watercolor compositions by the English soldier-artist James Pattison Cockburn… -- helped familiarize European audiences with the iconography of the Falls" (J.E. Adamson, Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697-1901, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1985, pp.37-8).