PARKER, Henry Perlee: A View of the Town of Sheffield from the South East

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PARKER, Henry Perlee : A View of the Town of Sheffield from the South East

Marples & Hibbert, Sheffield, 1844

440 x 610 mm., early hand coloured aquatint engraving, small repaired tear to sky near the rainbow, otherwise in good condition.

A very attractive large hand coloured aquatint of Sheffield engraved by J. Harris after a painting by Henry Perlee Parker (1795-1837). Printed by Brooker & Harrison it was published by Marples & Hibbert, Sheffield, April 1st 1844. Perlee was an art master at Wesley College, Sheffield and exhibited at the Royal Academy. It is a view of the burgeoning industrial city complete with smoking chimneys. The hill in the foreground bears a nice family scene including a kite about to be flown by some boys. A rainbow is placed in the right side of the image.

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