Henry Salt
Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt
Estimate: 18.000 - 25.000 GBP
Price realised: 67.250 GBP
Price realised: 67.250 GBP
Description
SALT, Henry (1780-1827). Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt. London: William Miller, 1809. Atlas volume, broadsheet (approximately 755 x 555mm). Aquatint title incorporating dedication, printed in sepia, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates by D. Havell, J. Hill and J. Bluck, supervised by Robert Havell, after Salt, on thick Whatman paper with watermarks of 1805, 1808 and 1809, mounted on guards and interleaved throughout, these watermarked 'Edmeads & Pine 1804', the two Egyptian plates still with good margins. (Title with very light occasional spotting.) Contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, gilt spine label, remnants of ties (spine heavily rubbed and repaired at head, hinges sometime repaired, extremities rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. A VERY FRESH, CLEAN COPY OF THE COMPLETE SET OF SALT'S VERY FINE LARGE FORMAT VIEWS. Salt visited the Cape, India, and the Red Sea. In Calcutta, the party was entertained by the Governor-General, Marquis Wellesley (the dedicatee of the present work) and then travelled to Benares, Lucknow, Ceylon and Madras. Salt then explored the Red Sea, returned to Bombay and Poona, to the Red Sea again, before making an extensive excursion into the Abyssinian highlands, here represented by six views. Contemporary advertisements make clear that the work was designed to be similar in size and presentation to the plates of Thomas and William Daniell's great work, Oriental Scenery (1795-1808): the undoubted artistry of Salt and his engravers have ensured that this work is a worthy successor. A quarto text volume, with the same title, was published by Miller in the same year. Cf. Abbey Travel II, 515 (late issue with text volume); Tooley 440 (the text 'is not important and the work is usua
FIRST EDITION. A VERY FRESH, CLEAN COPY OF THE COMPLETE SET OF SALT'S VERY FINE LARGE FORMAT VIEWS. Salt visited the Cape, India, and the Red Sea. In Calcutta, the party was entertained by the Governor-General, Marquis Wellesley (the dedicatee of the present work) and then travelled to Benares, Lucknow, Ceylon and Madras. Salt then explored the Red Sea, returned to Bombay and Poona, to the Red Sea again, before making an extensive excursion into the Abyssinian highlands, here represented by six views. Contemporary advertisements make clear that the work was designed to be similar in size and presentation to the plates of Thomas and William Daniell's great work, Oriental Scenery (1795-1808): the undoubted artistry of Salt and his engravers have ensured that this work is a worthy successor. A quarto text volume, with the same title, was published by Miller in the same year. Cf. Abbey Travel II, 515 (late issue with text volume); Tooley 440 (the text 'is not important and the work is usua
A top price for Henry Salt
This artwork by Henry Salt achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in September 2011. In the Travel, Science and Natural History auction, the work Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt sold for GBP 67,250.00 (€ 78,125.81) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 25,000.00. This high result makes Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt the most expensive artwork by Henry Salt that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Henry Salt
Dieses Kunstwerk von Henry Salt erzielte im September 2011 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Travel, Science and Natural History wurde die Arbeit Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt für GBP 67.250,00 (€ 78.125,81) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 25.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Henry Salt, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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