1829 1ed Cooke ART Shipping & Craft Landscape Painting Boats with PROVENANCE



Edward William Cooke was a 19th-century English landscape artist whose paintings helped define a genre of art. He gained his fame through paintings of marine waterscapes many of which are included in this work Shipping and Craft. This collection of plates depicts Cookes paintings of ships, sails, port views, and cargo.



Item number: #17083

Price: $750



COOKE, Edward W.



Sixty five plates of shipping and craft



London: 1829. First edition.



Details:

Collation:

57 engravings

Provenance: Bookplate – Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming

Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming (1859–1923) was a British naval officer and the first director of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). Cumming was the basis for the fictional head of the SIS, named Control, in the John le Carré espionage novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and Ian Flemings M in his James Bond series.

Language: English

Binding: Leather;

Size: ~12.5in X 10in (32cm x 25.5cm)



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