Original 180+-year-old antique lithographs from
Muller's Sketches of the
Age of Francis the First
by William James Muller
drawn on lithographic stones by Augustus Wall Callcott
LONDON: Published by Graves, 1841
Sheet size: approximately 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
Image sizes vary, see descriptions below
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(detail from plate 3 below)
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MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845), English landscape and figure painter, was born at Bristol on 28th June 1812, and was the son of a Prussian gentleman, a writer on scientific subjects and curator of the Bristol Museum. He received a careful education, being especially trained in botany and natural history, and it was intended that lie should become an engineer; his leanings towards art were too definite to be resistd, and he was placed under J. B. Pyne to receive his first instructions as a painter. His early subjects deal mainly with the scenery of Gloucestershire and Wales, and he learned much from his study of Claude, Ruysdael, and the other earlier landscape-painters. In 1833 he figured for the first time in the Royal Academy with his Destruction of Old London Bridge - Morning, and next year he made a tour through France, Switzerland, and Italy. Four years later he visited Athens, extending his travels to Egypt, and in the sketches executed during this period and the paintings produced from them the power and individuality of the artist are first apparent. Shortly after his return he left Bristol and settled in London, where he exhibited regularly, and found purchasers, at moderate sums, for his pictures. In 1840 he again visited France, where he executed a series of sketches of Renaissance architecture, twenty-five of which were lithographed and published in 1841, in a folio entitled Muller's Sketches of the Age of Francis the First [of France]. He was anxious again to visit the East, and in 1843 he accompanied, at his own request and his own charges, the Government expedition to Lycia, where he produced an extensive collection of masterly sketches of scenes unfamiliar to the art of his time. They were exhibited in London; their merit was fully recognized by the British public, and the artist received numerous commissions for finished pictures. But his health was seriously impaired, he was suffering from heart disease and from continued nasal haemorrhage; and, returning to his native city, he died there on 8th September 1845.
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Original tinted lithographs over 170 years old
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PLATE 3 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 19.5 x 7.75 inches |
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PLATE 4 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 15.675 x 10.25 inches |
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PLATE 6 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 8.75 x 7.25 inches |
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PLATE 7 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 15.75 x 11.25 inches |
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PLATE 9 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 11.5 x 4.25 inches |
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PLATE 11 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 16 x 11.75 inches |
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PLATE 12(?) |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 15.75 x 11.75 inches |
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PLATE 13 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 12.375 x 7.75 inches |
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PLATE 14 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 17.125 x 10.375 inches |
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PLATE 18 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 19 x 8.5 inches |
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PLATE 19 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 18.25 x 11.75 inches |
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PLATE 21 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 14.25 x 10.25 inches |
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PLATE 22 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 21.75 x 14.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 16.675 x 11.675 inches |
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PLATE 24 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 14.75 x 21.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 12.125 x 15.125 inches |
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PLATE 25 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 14.75 x 21.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 12.125 x 15.125 inches |
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PLATE 26 |
| Sketch drawn/painted by William James Muller |
| Drawn on stone by A.W. Callcott |
SHEET SIZE (APPROX.): 14.75 x 21.75 inches
IMAGE SIZE (APPROX.): 11.25 x 14.75 inches |
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| $100 |
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