ETCHINGS. – George CUMBERLAND Jnr. [Views in Spain and Portugal, Taken During the Campaigns of

ETCHINGS. – George CUMBERLAND Jnr. [Views in Spain and Portugal, Taken During the Campaigns of His Grace the Duke of Wellington. N.p.: circa 1818.] Limited edition, one of only 30 copies, oblong 4to (256 x 373mm.) 10 soft-ground captioned etched plates of views in Spain and Portugal on Whatman Paper. (Lacking title and 2 plates, a soft crease to middle of all plates, occasional finger-mark or minor soiling to margins.) Original card wrappers (stain to upper cover and a crease, chipped to extremities and upper cover loosening). Note: very rare. Dated to the paper’s water-mark, 1818. George Cumberland Jnr. was the son of the painter George Cumberland. Like his father and William Blake- with whom he was close friends- George was interested in experimental print-making. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1816-18. Prior to this, he followed Wellington’s troops in Spain and Portugal at the time of the Peninsular War. Cumberland drew 12 views and he first published them [circa 1818] in a series of 30 copies, of which this is one. There’s a copy in the British Library and one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. In 1823, he reworked these images, added a further seven, and William Nicol published them in an edition of 100.