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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Gift sticker in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries writers and artists visited the Isle of Wight to study and record its scenery and antiquities. This was a period of travel and exploration generally as wealthy families and antiquarians wished to see the classical landscapes art and architecture of Europe. The desire to explore the more remote parts of the British Isles in particular Scotland Wales the Lake District and the Isle of Wight coincided with the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768 and the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1804. As a result artists undertook tours of the Island often producing albums of watercolour drawings some of which were published and formed the first ‘guidebooks’ to the Isle of Wight. (MP)