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Bankart, George
English (1829-1916)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Entrance to Dove Dale, Derbyshire
BOOK TITLE: Izaak Walton, --The Compleat Angler; or The Contemplative Man's Recreation,...--, 100th Edition, edited by R.B. Marston, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Ltd., 1888. pl. XXXVII [RB SH 433 A18 1888, Vol. I & II]

ca. 1887 / print ca. 1888
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
photogravure print
13.9 x 20.2 cm.
Museum Collection, by exchange
93:0207:0037

NON-GEH NUMBER: plate XXXVII

Walton, Izaak. --Compleat Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation,...-- London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Ltd., 1888. pl. 37.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in pencil) "Entrance to Dove Dale, Derbyshire."

NOTES: Catalogued 10/93, DZ. "In the spring of 1887 Emerson stayed at Rye House, Hoddington Herts, to execute a commission for illustrations to R.B. Marston's centenary edition of Izaak Walton's --Compleat Angler.-- He photographed along the River Lea, while the photographs of the River Dove were taken by George Bankart, president of the Leicester Photographic Society. As Emerson said, 'the old and new style of photography can be nicely compared in this edition, the Derbyshire photographs being the work of an expert of the old "Sharp School".' The plates were reproduced by the Typo-etching Company without any retouching. However Emerson did not supervise their work and he was not satisfied with the results." [Life and Landscape: P.H. Emerson Art & Photography in East Anglia 1885-1900--, p. 36] "Plates 2-28 by P.H. Emerson, plates 30-54 by George Bankart, president of Leicester Photographic Society." [Ibid, p. 122] "This Demy Quatro Edition is limited strictly to 500 copies, of which this copy is No. 310" "Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited..."

SUBJECTS:
landscape, river
landscape, rural

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