H BESLEY
H BESLEY
1800
1886
H Besley published a series of vignettes of Cornish scenes, that were issued in booklets and used to illustrate guidebooks. They were engraved, and included tin mining scenes, towns, Land's End, and entitled Besley's Views of Cornwall (c1854).
media
Etcher, engraver
exhibitions
2008-2009: Penlee House Gallery & Museum, 'A Village in Focus: Mousehole' and 'A Village in Focus: Newlyn' exhibitions
references
Exeter: Somers Cocks Catalogue, pp 9-10 (on-line); Devon Libraries Local Studies Service
Penlee House exhibition notes 2008-9