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Aquatint Worlds - Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770-1820 (Hardcover)
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Aquatint Worlds - Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770-1820 (Hardcover)
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An illuminating investigation of how aquatint travel books
transformed the way Britons viewed the world and their place within
it In the late 18th century, British artists embraced the medium of
aquatint for its ability to produce prints with rich and varied
tones that became even more stunning with the addition of color. At
the same time, the expanding purview of the British empire created
a market for images of far-away places. Book publishers quickly
seized on these two trends and began producing travel books
illustrated with aquatint prints of Indian cave temples, Chinese
waterways, African villages, and more. Offering a close analysis of
three exceptional publications-Thomas and William Daniell's
Oriental Scenery (1795-1808), William Alexander's Costume of China
(1797-1805), and Samuel Daniell's African Scenery and Animals
(1804-5)-this volume examines how aquatint became a preferred
medium for the visual representation of cultural difference, and
how it subtly shaped the direction of Western modernism.
Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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