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

www.antiquemapsandprints.com

Penlee House exhibition notes 2008-9