Hertfordshire Prints

10x8 cm

South Mims Church, Herts.
Drawn & Engraved by I. Hassell.
London.Pub.1.Dec.^r 1816, by I.Hassell.

Aquatint in original hand colour drawn and published by John Hassell in 1817 in the first volume of a two volume work with the full title:
PICTURESQUE RIDES AND WALKS, WITH EXCURSIONS BY WATER, THIRTY MILES ROUND THE BRITISH METROPOLIS; ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS, Coloured after Nature:  WITH AN HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY WITHIN THE COMPASS OF THAT CIRCLE.
John Hassell (c.1767-1825) was an English landscape painter, engraver, illustrator writer, publisher, drawing master, friend and biographer of fellow artist George Morland.
The work included 120 aquatint engravings. Aquatint is an etching process using powdered rosin to create tones on the copperplate which, when hand coloured with watercolour washes after printing, gave the effect of a watercolour painting. The small two volume work was expensive to produce and sales were limited, the work and surviving plates are scarce today.

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