CAUNTER, HOBART; DANIELL, WILLIAM
THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL 1834-1840 (Seven Volume Set)
Year: 1834-1840
Size: 11.7 x 17.3 inches
CONTAINING A SERIES OF TALES, LEGENDS & HISTORICAL ROMANCES.First Edition
Year: 1834-1840
Size: 30 x 43.5 cm (11.7 x 17.3 inches)
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COMPLETE SET OF ALL SEVEN VOLUMES, IN PRISTINE CONDITION.
8vo.
No. of Engraving: 153 Steel Engraved
Number of Printed Pages:
Year - 1834: 256 Pages
Year - 1835: 267 Pages
Year - 1836: 304 Pages
Year - 1837: 248 Pages
Year - 1838: 252 Pages
Year - 1839: 268 Pages
Year - 1840: 241 Pages
Caunter went to India about 1810 as a cadet with the 34th foot, but was soon disgusted with his situation and, having discovered, much to his disappointment, nothing on the continent of Asia to interest him, he returned home. He recorded his impressions of India in a poem entitled The Cadet (2 vols., 1814).
He published five volumes entitled The Oriental Annual of Science (1834-8).
The fine and evocative plates are after William Daniell who initially accompanied his celebrated uncle Thomas Daniell to India between 1786 and 1793. On his return to London in 1794, Daniell spent the next fifteen years working on the aquatints for their joint work 'Oriental Scenery' published in six volumes between 1795-1808). Unlike his uncle, William increasingly produced representations of Indian figures and small, waterside scenes, concentrating less on topography than on oriental fantasy, [he] was an extremely accomplished aqua tinter and etcher and at times experimented with the latest printmaking techniques as adopted by J. M. W. Turner, for instance wiping out highlights in his watercolors. He was a prolific print maker, producing a series of high-quality productions that included A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India (1802-5); and the Oriental Annual (1835). His most famous independent work was his Voyage round Great Britain (4 vols., 1814-25), which made extensive use of sepia wash' (Natasha Eaton for DNB).
BINDING: Publisher's original embossed dark brown morocco, gilt elephant with a howdah on both boards, blind images of snakes at the four corners of boards, gilt camel and palm-tree on spine, title in gilt on spine; all edges gilt. with all 153 Engravings called for are present. Good Condition.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
About Artist
William Daniell (1749 - 1840)
William Daniell and his uncle Thomas Daniell were renowned European ‘company school’ whose range and quality were surpassed by none in the likes of their contemporaries. They spent 10 years travelling extensively in India between 1786…...Read More
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| 1 | anon0200 | 297000.00 | Regular | 24-11-2025 01:11:06 PM IST |