Artsoutine Arts and Antiques

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A North East View of the new General Post Office after James Pollard engraved by Henry Pyall.
Lovely Hand Coloured Aquatint by Henry Pyall after James Pollard. Busy Street scene, many Post office horses and Mail Coaches leaving the New General Post Office London .
Published by 'Messers Fores 1852 at their Sporting & Fine Print Repository, 41 Piccadilly - Corner of Sackville Street.
Lovely Hand Coloured aqurtint Engraved by Henry Pyall as published by messers fores of Picadilly
the aqurtint is mounted and framed Ready to Hang

Henry Pyall 1795-1833 Aquatint engraver of sporting, coaching and railway subjects and topographical views after his contemporaries. He lived and worked in London and ran a publishing company with George Hunt.

James Pollard 1792-1867 Very well known london Painter Engraver For His Mail Coaching Scenes ,He began work at the age of fifteen as a painter he turned to engraving In the 1820s his coaching scenes became both fashionable From 1821 he exhibited a small number of pictures at the Royal Academy and the British Institution which brought him more patrons. Between 1830 and 1840, Pollard also painted a number of racing pictures and some of the earliest scenes of steeplechasing. In all his work he took great pains over accuracy, such as the busy London scene being offerd here, with its depiction of the people of london walking / riding strolling in the fine fashions of the day amoungts the Mail coaches, carts and cabs very carefully drawn and observed bringing to live the busy street scene outside the new general post office in London .
Wonderful Christmas present For A Collector Of Postal History.