Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings Selected From His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature

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One of the Very Few Copies With Additional Shading by the Artist. Of a small overall edition of one hundred and seventeen copies, this is one of a handful of copies additionally enhanced by the artist with additional shading to more clearly make the lithographs look like original drawings. Published in Bath by subscription, folio, six pages (including the subscribers list), forty tipped-in plates. Half-morocco over grey boards, gilt titles. all edges gilt. The lithographs are on tinted paper with ruled borders, each signed with the artists initial to lower left corner. They measure 9 x 6 1/4 inches and are tipped onto thick, 16 x 12 1/4 inch sheets. THe occasional spot, but a very nice copy of a rare work. Twyman states that "Thomas Barker was a successful painter of rustic scenes in the idiom of Gainsborough, and one of the few artists of any significance who is known to have turned to lithography between (the) first experimental period and the later development of the topographical school.'The first of Barker's important lithographed publications was a "Collection of Forty Lithographed Impressions of Rustic Figures.' Subscribers include Benjamin West, John Haviland, Richard Ackermann, Mrs Gwynn, and others.