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BATTY, Robert.
Scenery Of The Rhine, Belgium And Holland, From Drawings By Captn. Batty, Of The Grenadier Guards F.R.S. Member Of The Imperial Russian Order Of St. Anne
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty (1789-1848) army officer and artist Batty compiled books illustrated with plates etched by himself. He served in the Peninsular War, in the Duke of Wellington's 1815 Campaign, at Waterloo, where he was injured in the thigh. "Following Wellington's victory, Batty entered Paris with the 3rd battalion on 7 July, having en route been at the storming of the fortress of Péronne on 26 June. Three days later, he became a lieutenant and captain in the first guards. He served in the army of occupation in France." He was elected FRS in 1822. "Batty acted as Lieutenant-General Sir William Clinton's aide-de-camp with the 1826–7 expedition to Portugal in support of the young Portuguese queen against Spanish-backed rebels." ODNB.
- Published
- London: Robert Jennings, 1826.
- Plates
- 62
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Robert Jennings, 1826.
- Ref
- 1383
Small folio. Contemporary full calf, with gilt fillet and rule in gilt, Greek Key design in blind to boards, title in gilt to spine together with gilt raised bands with a decorative repeat gilt motif to three compartments. Gilt to edges and gilt inner dentelles. Slightly rubbed and worn at hinges and corners, minor scuffing to boards. 62 steel-engraved plates (frontispiece and tail-piece included). All plates are after drawings by the author engraved by W.R. Smith, E. Finden, R. Wallis, W. Woolnoth, etc. (189 lvs). Fine plate book with steel-engraved frontispiece, 60 full-page steel-engraved plates and steel-engraved tail-piece, all full-page plates with an explanation in English and French. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Belgian Passage Boat at the Gate od St. Catherine. Bruges. 2. Title page. Place Royale, Brussels. 3. (The Palace at) Heidelberg. 4. Heidelberg. 5. Broken Tower, Heidelberg. 6. Meckarsteinach. 7. Wurtzberg. 8. The Citadel of Wurtzberg. 9. The Dom-Gasse, Wurtzberg. 10. Frankfort. 11. Mayence. 12. Cathedral of Mayence. 13. Bingen. 14. Rheinstein. 15. Castle of Furstenfels. 16. Bacharach. 17. Ober Wessel (and Caub). 18. Oberwesl. 19. View from Oberwesel. 20. The Lurley Berg. 21. Rheinfels. 22. Ehrenbreitstein. 23. Coblence. 24. Ruins at Andernach. 25. View from Andernach. 26. The Apollinariseberg. 27. Drachenfels and Roland's Eck. 28. The Castle of Godesberg. 29. Bayen Thurm, Cologne. 30. St. Martin's Cologne. 31. Cathedral at Cologne. 32. Tower of the Cathedral, Cologne. 33. Town-Hall, Cologne. 34. Namur, from the Road to Liege. 35. Namur from the Citadel. 36. Great Square at Tournay 37. Roman Arch at Tournay. 38. Ypres. 39. Great Square at Bruges. 40. Gate of Ghent, at Bruges. 41. The Minnie-Water, Bruges. 42. St. Michael's, Ghent. 43. Hotel de Villes, Brussels. 44. St. Guddla, Brussels. 45. Town Hall, Louvain. 46. Mechlin. 47. The Eyer-Merkt, Antwerp. 48. Antwerp Cathedral. 49. Arnheim. 50. Utrecht. 51. Oude Hooft-Poort, Rotterdam. 52. Rotterdam. 53. Stadt-Huis, Delft. 54. Oude-Kerk, Delft. 55. Palace at the Hague. 56. The Stadt-Haus, Leyden. 57. Groote Hout-Poort, Haarlem. 58. Haarlem. 59. The Palace, Amsterdam. 60. The West Kerk, Amsterdam. 61. The Herring Tower, Amsterdam. 62. Montalban's Tower, Amsterdam.
