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Lot 151

BELLASIS (GEORGE HUTCHINS)
Views of Saint Helena, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, John Tyler, 1815

27 October 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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BELLASIS (GEORGE HUTCHINS)

Views of Saint Helena, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on title "With Geo. Hut. Bellasis best Compliments to Mr. Wilson, Surgeon", letterpress dedication to the Duke of Wellington, 3-page list of subscribers, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Robert Havell after Bellasis (some watermarked "1811", text "1806"), some light toning and soiling, first 2 text leaves torn at edges, final text leaf creased, plates with stab-holes at fore-edges, untrimmed in modern blue quarter morocco, original printed wrappers bound in, wrappers strengthened at edges and with fraying repaired [Abbey Travel 309; Tooley 87], folio (340 x 450mm.), John Tyler, 1815

Footnotes

Provenance:
Joseph Rogers of Philadelphia, ink inscription on verso of each plate

Bellasis' fine aquatint views of St. Helena, dedicated to Wellington, and issued shortly after Napoleon's arrival on the island: "at this time an object of interest to the whole world" (Dedication). The surgeon to whom Bellasis inscribes his work could be Robert Wilson (1787-1871), who in the 1820s became a close personal friend of Princess Pauline Borghese, née Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon. Four Wilsons are listed as subscribers, but none with the title Dr. which appears for other subscribers.

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