Albert Goodwin RWS 1845-1932 Limited Edition (1986)

Hardcover in original publisher’s slipcase.  Oblong folio.  43 x 30cm.  Limited to 1000 copies signed by Chris Beetles, this being number 492.  Quarter calf with marble boards. Gilt titling to spine. 200 stunning illustrations accompanied by biographical notes and diary extracts.  “In synthesising the influences of J M W Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, Albert Goodwin may be considered one of the most Ruskinian of Victorian landscape painters. Indeed, he was taken up by John Ruskin and, in 1872, given the opportunity to travel with him on an intensive tour of Italy and Switzerland. This set the pattern for many further and extensive travels. Like Ruskin, Goodwin responded to landscape with a religious fervour and understanding; but he interpreted it with greater eclecticism than did his mentor, even experimenting with the style of James McNeill Whistler, Ruskin’s adversary in the field of aesthetics.”  Condition: some very light shelf-wear to edges, slipcase a little worn with a stain to lower left corner.