Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
La Salle, Achille Étienne Gigault de, 1772-1855
Title:
Select views in Sicily : accompanied by an historical and descriptive account / translated from the original published at Paris by Mr. J.F. D'Ostervald.
Published / Created:
London : Published by John Weale, 1825.
Physical Description:
[58] p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
English version, abridged, of the Voyage pittoresque en Sicile (Paris, 1822-1826) with a selection of the views engraved in a small size by the same group of engravers, although not necessarily the same subjects as they did in the larger work. Cf. Abbey.
Subject Terms:
Sicily (Italy) -- Description and travel. | Sicily (Italy) -- Antiquities. | Weale, John -- Publisher. | Moyes, J. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1825.
Contributors:
Bennett, W. J. (William James), 1787–1844, engraver. | Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851, engraver. | Havell, engraver. | Himely, Sigismund, 1801–1872, engraver. | Reeve, Richard Gilson, 1803–1889, engraver. | Salathé, Friedrich,, 1793–1858, engraver. | Sutherland, Thomas, approximately 1785–approximately 1825, engraver. | Birmann, Peter, 1758–1844, ill. | Cassas, Louis François, 1756–1827, ill. | Catel, Franz Ludwig, 1778–1856, ill. | Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788–1863, ill. | Forbin, Comte de (Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste), 1777–1841, ill. | Frommel, Carl Ludwig, 1789–1863, ill. | Hall, James, 1799 or 1800–1854, ill. | Huber, Johann Caspar, 1752–1827, ill. | Michallon, Achille-Etna, 1796–1822, ill. | Pourtalès-Gorgier, comte de, ill.