AQUATINT WORLDS, travel, print, and empire, 1770-1820

315pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w,. London, 2019

Douglas Fordham on how aquatint travel books transformed the way Britons viewed the world. He focuses especially on three publications - Samuel Daniell’s African Scenery and Animals (1804–5), Thomas and William Daniell’s Oriental Scenery (1795–1808) and William Alexander’s Costume of China (1797–1805).

Douglas Fordham is associate professor of art history at the University of Virginia.