LAMI, Eugène & MONNIER, Henri Voyage en Angleterre.
Paris & Londres, Firmin-Didot et Lami-Denozan pour Gihaut frères & Colnaghi Son et Co., 1830. In-folio (405 x 278 mm) d'un titre typographique à l'adresse de Gihaut, 28 planches lithographiées et coloriées à l'époque. Demi-veau cerise, dos lisse, une couverture de livraison conservés (reliure de l' époque).
Ray, 139 (indique 28 planches) ; Vicaire, V, 1-3 (indique 29 planches).
Seconde édition, publiée par Gihaut (voir Vicaire). Exemplaire comportant 28 planches (habituellement l'album n'en comporte que 24).
“This elegant and brilliant painter [Eugène Lami, 1800-1890] devoted much of his time to lithography between 1817 and 1833.
The son of an Empire bureaucrat, he grew up in Paris. Beginning in 1815, he studied painting with Horace Vernet and afterwards in the studio of Baron Gros...To support himself he made lithographs for several albums, including in 1822 a Collection des uniformes des armées françaises, de 1791 à 1814... Lami paid his first visit to
England in 1826, during which he drew the sketches which resulted in his Souvenirs de Londres... He fell in with Henry Monnier, already an expert in things English, and under his guidance comprehensively explored London and the countryside. Indeed, Monnier provided more than a third of the twenty-eight designs which make up Lami's finest album, the Voyage en Angleterre. It is here that for the first time
Lami struck his distinctive note in lithography. These precise and sparkling plates, which show England in its most attractive aspects, brought the lithographic recording of the passing scenes to an unprecedented level of grace and refinement... The culminating plate of the album, in which both artists had a hand, shows Parliament
Street in London during the vening rush hour” (Ray, The Art of the
French Illustrated Book, p. 203-205).
La planche intitulée Une petite ville de province, no 6 mentionnée seulement par Vicaire n'y figure pas. Planches 14 et 18 plus courts de marges, rousseurs ; reliure frottée, manque au dos.
