wilson ware (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Sherman, Conn: Sherman Historical Society, 1991. Limited edition of 700. 4to paper wraps. 133pp. 9 illustration including cover photo "Sherman Center". Very Good book. Glue remnants from removed price sticker on rear cover. (connecticut, sherman, sentinel, newspaper, history) Inquire if you need further information.

Photograph album with 30 thick card leaves on which are mounted 108 photographs, most two to a page but occasionally just a single photograph, the images measure 17.8 or 16.6 x 11.6 cm. All the scenes are in Scotland and most printed with a short description of the scene and the initials of the photographers - 34 by G.W.W. (Wilson) and 44 by J.V. (Valentine), a further 31 are unattributed but in style similar to the initialled photographs so the assumption is that they are by Wilson or Valentine. The album measures 30 x 23 cm, and is handsomely bound in a fine and very large example of a mauchline ware binding, with a red leather spine decorated in gilt and blind, sides of lacquered wood from the Athole plantations in Dunkeld and with photographic views of Dunkeld from St. Mary's Tower lacquered to the front and back. On the upper cover is a transfered verse from the Jacobite song 'Cam' Ye by Athole' by the Shepherd poet James Hogg. With a metal clasp and lock, all edges gilt, elaborate gilt turn-ins. In exceptional condition, occasional spotting. George Washington Wilson (1823-1893) began life as a painter becoming a portrait photographer in 1852. He was based in Aberdeen and because of his proximity to Balmoral photographed Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He later took up landscape photography for which he is best known. He revolutionised the mass production of photographs, creating a large market for picture postcards of which he claimed to have sold half a million between 1860 and 1864. James Valentine (1815-1879) founded his printing firm in 1851 and it went on to become Scotland's leading maker of postcards. Like Wilson he made his name as a portrait photographer and in 1860 followed Wilson into the realm of topographical photography. By 1867 he had a Royal Warrant. Mauchline ware was a decorative technique that originated in the 1830s in the Scottish town of Mauchline in which a transfer print of a wood engraving or photograph or a colour design such as a tartan or floral motif, was applied to a lacquered wooden object, such as the boards of a bookbinding. In the 1860s in particular, photographs and stencils began to be used in the design process. Mauchline ware reached a peak of popularity in the 1880s, disappearing in the 1920s. Â.