Veletri near Rome froma a drawing by P. Roobins

Reference: S23964
Author Josiah Henshall
Year: 1834
Zone: Velletri
Printed: London
Measures: 150 x 200 mm
€80.00

Reference: S23964
Author Josiah Henshall
Year: 1834
Zone: Velletri
Printed: London
Measures: 150 x 200 mm
€80.00

Description

Veduta della piazza e della fontana di Velletri, incisa da J. Henshall su un disegno di J. Robins, pubblicata a Londra in The Gallery of One Hundred Engravings, intorno al 1834.

Acquaforte, in ottimo stato di conservazione.

Bibliografia

P. Arrigoni, A. Bertarelli, Piante e vedute di Roma e del Lazio conservate nella Raccolta delle stampe e disegni, Milano 1939, p. 472 n. 4709.

Josiah Henshall (1806 - 1869)

Engraver and copperplate printer. Engraved maps for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1831-1839, including Athens (1832), Berlin (1833), Birmingham (1838), Bordeaux (1832), Lisbon (1833), London (1836), Madrid (1831), Milan (1832), Oporto (1833) and Vienna (1833. Known for numerous other maps, architectural and landscape prints and book illustrations. Produced "Henshall's illustrated topography of twenty-five miles round London" 1837-1838. Born London about 1801. Described as an engraver and printer on the 1841 Census, living at Denmark Terrace with his wife Mary and daughters Mary Ann (13) and Elizabeth (8). By now described as an engraver and painter, the 1851 Census gives his age as 50, with Mary (49 - from Coventry), and Elizabeth (20). The family had been joined by a nephew, Edward Townley (5), from Birmingham and a woman servant. Concentrated on painting from the 1840s, exhibiting seventy studies, mainly of buildings, at the London shows 1848-1863. By 1861 he had retired to Hampstead. Death aged 68 registered at Kensington in the final quarter of 1869.

Josiah Henshall (1806 - 1869)

Engraver and copperplate printer. Engraved maps for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1831-1839, including Athens (1832), Berlin (1833), Birmingham (1838), Bordeaux (1832), Lisbon (1833), London (1836), Madrid (1831), Milan (1832), Oporto (1833) and Vienna (1833. Known for numerous other maps, architectural and landscape prints and book illustrations. Produced "Henshall's illustrated topography of twenty-five miles round London" 1837-1838. Born London about 1801. Described as an engraver and printer on the 1841 Census, living at Denmark Terrace with his wife Mary and daughters Mary Ann (13) and Elizabeth (8). By now described as an engraver and painter, the 1851 Census gives his age as 50, with Mary (49 - from Coventry), and Elizabeth (20). The family had been joined by a nephew, Edward Townley (5), from Birmingham and a woman servant. Concentrated on painting from the 1840s, exhibiting seventy studies, mainly of buildings, at the London shows 1848-1863. By 1861 he had retired to Hampstead. Death aged 68 registered at Kensington in the final quarter of 1869.