Buy this book on-line BAKER, C. JANE: : A Vision of DARTMOOR: Paintings by F.J. Widgery 1861-1942LONDON.VICTOR GOLLANCZ,1988. ISBN 057504294X.
UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,watercolour pictorial artwork by F.J. Widgery,illustrated dw/dj panels,with black+red lettering to front panel,white lettering to spine/backstrip with minimal sunning/fading; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate green+white sketch illustrated endpapers.UK,landscape 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-128pp [paginated] includes 3 chapters (intro and Dartmoor and it's artists and it's writers),a potted biography of artist,section of artists watercolour plates with accompanying text,a bibliography and acknowledgements, plus [unpaginated] half-title page with a b/w sketch to its reverse,title page, contents list/table with subject/painter's b/w portrait frntis to its reverse and section/chapter separator pages. Introduction by C. Jane Baker Curator of Fine Art Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
Enigmatic Dartmoor,with its proud tors and brooding marshes,has always evoked the best from artists and writers - and none more so than F.J. Widgery,one of the finest of Devonian painters.
In 1896 Widgery was commissioned to illustrate the 3rd edition of Samuel Rowe's best-selling 'A Perambulation of Dartmoor'. All 22 of his superb watercolours are reproduced here in this new book,along with many of his line drawings and sketches of Dartmoor scenery. The illustrations are accompanied by selections from many of the writings about Dartmoor that were familiar to,and much loved by Widgery,as well as by a lengthy Introduction setting Widgery's work in its historical context and tracing and assessing the history of painted depictions of the Moor.
'A Vision of Dartmoor' is much more than a celebration of one of our most noted national parks.It is also an exploration of one man's obsession with an area of outstanding beauty and mystery.
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