Lot 225: PORTER, ROBERT KER.

Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden. London: Richard Phillips, 1809, 2 volumes, 4to, 41 plates, 28 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 folding, 12 tinted aquatint views, one folding, one etched portrait, later half calf, occasional spotting

LITERATURE

Abbey, Travel 13

NOTE

''A man of the most varied attainments, Porter... is probably now best remembered as an artist. He was a splendid horseman, excelled in field sports, and possessed the gift of finding acceptance by people of every rank'' (ODNB).