A View in Lyme Park With that extraordinary Custom of driving the Stags; the property of Peter Legh Esqr

by Thomas Smith of Derby, Francis Vivares, c.

$1,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A picturesque view of Lyme Park in Cheshire, the ancestral estate of the Legh family, after the celebrated landscape artist Smith of Derby. This beautifully rendered print is one of 23 plates Vivares engraved after Smith. Towards the middle of the eighteenth century, a trend developed among English artists and printmakers who sought to visually record the natural beauty of England and Wales. Sparked by a sense of national confidence and patriotism, English printmakers began

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.