Berkshire Prints

18x11 cm

Three aquatints:
Maidenhead Bridge.
Approach to Maidenhead Bridge.
View from Maidenhead Bridge looking Eastward. 

Hand coloured aquatints published in A Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol...by Archibald Robertson. London, William Faden, 1792.
The aquatint engravings published in this work are all unsigned, but were almost certainly by the author of the work, Archibald Robertson (fl.1777-1796) who was a print-seller and drawing master trading from Saville Row and, from 1782, Charles Street St. James's Square. Robertson is known as a landscape painter and for his aquatints. His first aquatints were jointly published with well known watercolourist, Paul Sandby (c1731-1809). 

The publishers imprint dated 1791 is close to binding edge on two plates and mostly lost on View from Maidenhead Bridge. Some spotting to all three plates.  Each aquatint 19x11cm. Uncommon.