William Tombleson

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Views of the Rhine

William Tombleson (* 1795, † around 1846) was an English draftsman, copper and steel engraver , author and publisher in London .

Tombleson was best known for his depictions and descriptions of landscapes: in the 1830s he published a considerable number of steel engravings and various books with picturesque views of the Upper and Middle Rhine as well as engravings with motifs of the Thames and the south-east England River Medway .

For the first volume of his travel guide “Views of the Rhine”, Tombleson drew 69 views, “... from Cologne to Mainz”, which were “engraved in the latest art, by the most distinguished artists” and translated into steel engravings with three languages. The volume also contained two large-format maps and was published in London in 1832 by William Gray Fearnside, Tombleson & Co.

At the same time, a French translation is dated: It names the German printer and publisher Creuzbauer in Karlsruhe in the series title . Despite this information and the contact between Tombleson and Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel from Karlsruhe in 1832 , the British Library only knows one German-language edition of Tombleson's views of the Rhine by the bookseller and publisher Adolf Asher, published in 1834 .

During the romantic era of the Rhine, William Tombleson provided the best templates for depictions of the Middle Rhine, which for decades became a treasure trove for copyists . The engravers who use his works as templates included Thomas Clark, John Cleghorn, T. Cox, R. Harris, W. Hood, J. Howe, W. Lacey, O. Smith, Shenfield, J. Stokes, D. Thompson, W. Watts, R. Wilson, and Henry Winkles . The two other book editions published between 1830 and 1832 were “The Upper Rhine” with title vignette, 68 views and folding map, and “The Thames” with title vignette, 79 views and panorama.

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Web links

Commons : William Tombleson  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tombleson's views of the Rhine - Upper Rhine (edited by William Gray Fearnside), Second series; London 1832, p. 96f. online in the internet archive
  2. ↑ Digitization of the French-language edition with full-text search option by: dilibri Rheinland-Pfalz
  3. ↑ a b ditto , in the series title
personal data
SURNAME Tombleson, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tombleson, W .; Tombleson, Wm.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English draftsman, engraver and engraver, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1795
DATE OF DEATH around 1846