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VIVIAN, George.
Scenery of Portugal & Spain.
Publisher: London: P. and D. Colnaghi, Ackermann; Paris: Ritter and Goupil; Berlin: A. Asher, 1839
Stock code: 61459
Price: £5,500 Currency Conversion
First edition, but with second issue of the plate "Oporto. Praca de Sm Bento" (text corrected). A sequel to Vivian's volume on Spain, this series of lithographs is largely devoted to Portugal, including views of Lisbon, Cintra, Setubal, Arrabida, Leiria, Coimbra, Porto, Villa do Conde, Guimares, Braga, and Ponte do Lima. However, there are equally picturesque scenes from Vigo, Malaga, Granada, and Valencia. The order of the plates differs from the Abbey copy. George Vivian (1798-1873), son of John Vivian of Claverton Manor - now home of the American Museum in Britain - was a "landscape painter, architect (dilettanti), art critic and collector" (Thieme/Becker). He travelled extensively in Europe between 1820 and 1850, visiting Albania, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Scandinavia and Russia.
Folio (555 × 374 mm) Contemporary green roan-backed flower-sprigged embossed boards, title gilt to the spine, cream endpapers. Lithographic title, 2-leaf plate list with lithographic head- and tailpiece (Abbey's plate nos. 31 and 32) and 32 plates on 29 leaves after Vivian by Louis Haghe. Advertisement leaf at front and rear, both advertising Vivian's Scenery of Spain. Spine restored, head- and tailcaps, joints, a little rubbed on the boards, a few plates with minor edge-splits and chips, but overall a very good copy.
