Paul Sandby

An album of views in Wales. Late eighteenth century

4to (345 x 285mm.), 38 hand-coloured aquatint plates mounted on card, including views of Harlech Castle, pencil captions, later brown half morocco, slight soiling to some mounts

Paul Sandby RA (1731-1809) was an English mapmaker before he became a wa🌠tercolour landscape painter, and a founding member of the Royalꦕ Academy. Thomas Gainsborough famously said of Sandby that he provided "real Views from Nature in this Country".