William Henry Bartlett

Portrait of William Henry Bartlett on the cover of an illustrated book, 1936

William Henry Bartlett (born March 26, 1809 in London , † November 13, 1854 on a ship off Malta ) was a British illustrator , best known for his numerous steel engravings .

Life

Bartlett was a very prolific artist. He was a student of John Britton . He died at the age of 45 on a ship near Malta while returning from the Middle East.

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Bartlett's works often show social scenes with many people, mostly separated by gender. In his pictures of nature he shows the beauty and destructive power of nature at the same time. One of Bartlett's peculiarities was that he always traveled to the appropriate places for his landscape prints and did not work with sketches like most of his colleagues. He went to North America, the Middle East and European countries. When it comes to printing techniques, he has developed a high degree of sensitivity and attention to detail in his works, especially since the steel engraving technique he most frequently used was still very young.

• Works by William Henry Bartlett
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  Gloucester Cathedral in 1828

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  Zurich around 1834

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  Budapest around 1840

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  Limerick and the Shannon River around 1840

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  Wailing Wall Jerusalem around 1860

literature

WHBarlett has published art books and illustrated books:

• Britton's Cathedral Antiquities - 1832–36
• Switzerland - 1833
• The History of Essex - 1836
• Picturesque Antiquities of English Cities
• Scotland Illustrated - 1838
• The Waldenses - 1838
• Beauties of the Bosphorus - 1838
• American Scenery - 1839-40; 1842
• Ireland Illustrated - circa 1841
• Canadian Scenery - 1842
• Find's Ports and Harbors - 1842
• The Danube - 1844
• Walks About Jerusalem - 1845
• Forty Days in the Desert - 1848
• The Nile-Boat or Glimpses of Egypt - 1849
• The Overland Route - 1850
• Footsteps of our Lord and his Apostles in Syria, Greece and Italy - 1850
• Pictures from Sicily - 1852
• The Pilgrim Fathers - 1853
• Scripture Sites and Scenes - 1854.

Web links

Commons : William Henry Bartlett  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Publications by and about William Henry Bartlett in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about William Henry Bartlett in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bartlett at artcyclopedia.com
• William Henry Bartlett . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).