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William Callow, An Autobiography: Hardback: 1st Edition: 1908: Arts History
William Callow, An Autobiography: Hardback: 1st Edition: 1908: Arts History
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William Callow R.W.S. F.R.G.S. - An Autobiography
Edited by H. M. Cundall.
Published by A & C Black, London, 1908. Hardback cover, 181 pages. Publisher's original olive green cloth, decoratively blocked and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt; b/w photo portrait frontis, 22 colour plates, 8 b/w illustrations.
CONDITION
Overall good condition - see photos. Sticker from The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists on front paste down end paper. Inscription to front free end paper. Otherwise no names or writing. Images crisp & clear.
Autobiography of English landscape painter, engraver and watercolourist William Callow (1812–1908)
Callow was born in Greenwich on 28 July 1812. He was apprenticed to the artist Copley Fielding, where he learnt the technique of Plein air sketching. He went on to study under Theodore and Thales Fielding, where he learnt to colour prints and make aquatints, and was taught water colour painting between 1825-7.
He kept detailed diaries of his early travels, and just before his death, his sight having failed, he dictated an autobiography. In 1855 he moved to Great Missenden, in Buckinghamshire, where he died in 1908.
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