Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Banks, William, d. 1866

Title:

Views of the English lakes / drawn and engraved by W. Banks, Edinburgh.

Alternate Title(s):

Views in the English Lake District

Published / Created:

[Windermere] : Published by J. Garnet, Windermere, [ca. 1860?]

Physical Description:

[27] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 25 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA670. L1 B36 1860 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA670. L1 B36 1860 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Cover title: Views in the English Lake District.

Steel engravings by William Banks; after Theophil Lindsay Aspland and William Banks.

Date of publication from Hunnisett.

Title page engraved.

Hunnisett, B. Illustrated dictionary of British steel engravers, p. 14

BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is bound in original grey printed wrappers. Has hand-colored steel engravings. Advertisement for William Banks, engraver, [1] leaf at end. Copy 2 bound in publisher's blind and gilt-stamped green cloth, with gilt edges. Decorative engraved t.p. and [26] engraved plates. Illustrations uncolored. Cover title: Views in the English Lake District. Name stamp in blue ink and deaccessioned note of Northfield Historical Society on verso of first free endpaper

Subject Terms:

Lake District (England) -- Pictorial works. | Garnet, J. -- Publisher. | Northfield Historical Society -- Stamp. (BACRB Copy 2) | Steel engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1860. | Steel engraving -- Specimens -- 1860.

Contributors:

Banks, William, d. 1866, engraver. | Aspland, Theophil Lindsey, 1807–1890, ill.