Purser, William

Greece, India and the landscapes of Byron's poetry recur in prints by William Purser, the English painter and architectural ...

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Greece, India and the landscapes of Byron's poetry recur in prints by William Purser, the English painter and architectural draughtsman, born in 1789 and recorded as dying around 1852, who designed plates for illustrated travel and literary books. Finden's Byron illustrations bring in Olympus, Salamis, Tempe, Missolonghi and Italian scenery, the Indian plates show Delhi, Bijapur, Fatehpur Sikri and the temples of Madurai, and Scottish views add Inverness, Aberdeen and the Bridge of Don. Purser was usually the artist whose designs another craftsman engraved, and the examples, dated 1833 to 1858, show how such engravings kept circulating long after the drawings were made.

Greece, India and the landscapes of Byron's poetry recur in prints by William Purser, the English painter and architectural draughtsman, born in 1789 and recorded as dying around 1852, who designed plates for illustrated travel and literary books. Finden's Byron illustrations bring in Olympus, Salamis, Tempe, Missolonghi and Italian scenery, the Indian plates show Delhi, Bijapur, Fatehpur Sikri and the temples of Madurai, and Scottish views add Inverness, Aberdeen and the Bridge of Don. Purser was usually the artist whose designs another craftsman engraved, and the examples, dated 1833 to 1858, show how such engravings kept circulating long after the drawings were made.

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