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JOHN NASH (C.1826)
The Royal Pavilion at Brighton
Hand coloured aquatint engravings, and thirteen others from the
set, the largest 31 x 46cm,
mounted, glazed and framed. (14)
Various dates have been given as to when this work was
commenced (and those on the outlines are of publication, not
execution). Part was done in 1818 and 1819, but it was in March
1820 that the work was begun in earnest, the final plates being
engraved in 1825. On publication, the following appeared as the
title: The Royal Pavilion at Brighton, published by the command of
and dedicated by permission to the King by His Majesty’s dutiful
Subject and Servant John Nash”. No date is given, but the lettering
on the ‘spine’ of a bound volume reads “Views of the Royal
Pavilion, Brighton, Hash, London, 1826”. It is not clear whether
Nash published this work as a private speculation or if it was
subsidized by George IV; probably he issued it himself, as the plates
were sold after his death, and the King may have undertaken to
purchase a certain number of copies. Nash entrusted the execution
of the plates to Augustus Pugin, father of A. N. Welby Pugin, who
employed a number of artists to work under him. They produced
thirty-five illustrations on thirty-one plates, of which fourteen are
offered here. Of these plates, twenty-eight were aquatinted and
mounted on a thin, light buff-coloured card, surrounded by a gilt
line, as well as double brown lines, one thicker than the other. The
three other plates consisted of outlines only, while of the twenty-
eight plates in aquatint all but four had outlines in addition.
€3000 - 4000
791
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY OVAL LIBRARY TABLE,
with tooled leather scriber, above a frieze set with drawers and
pull-out writing slider with brass handles, raised on a turned
centre column and quadruped base with downswept legs, brass
toecaps and castors. 171 x 136cm
€6000 - 8000
