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The exhibition will be divided into four display cases. The first will contain engravings after works by Turner, including one from The Turner Gallery: A Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings from the Works of the Late J.M.W. Turner (1878). The second case will present travel books authored by William Gilpin (1724–1804), featuring bucolic country scenes of the Scottish Highlands, of Wales, and along the River Wye.
The third case will include charming landscapes and seascapes from books by Samuel Ireland (d. 1800), Louis Simond (1767–1831), and Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834). The final case will feature prints of country manors. These landscapes show how humans intervene to alter and re-create nature. On view will be two books by John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), with before-and-after engravings used by this landscape architect to promote his designs.
The Loudon volumes were part of a recent acquisition from the Leo and Grega Daly Fund for Architectural Books. Two books in the case present views of South Winfield Manor and Kenilworth. -- www.nga.gov
Posted October 4th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
