12 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates on card. A fine collection of twelve views of Windsor: ten of Windsor Castle, one of Eton, and one of Virginia Water. They reproduce the fine oils Daniell did of Windsor between 1827 and 1830.

After his major works of India and Britain, William Daniell became fascinated with Windsor, exhibiting five oil paintings of Windsor Castle and two of Virginia Water in 1827, 1828 and 1830 in the Royal Academy. These were considered some of his finest oils and Sutton contests Long Walk at Windsor was his masterpiece, which is one of the oils reproduced in this work.

'We feel, in looking at these aquatints, that perhaps Daniell, with the philosophy of a much-travelled man, realised that in the cool greys and greens with which he "stained" his prints was the charm of his own land, more enduring than the exotic mystery of the Orient or the strange architecture of Hindistan' (Sutton).

First edition; folio (52 x 75 cm); complete with 12 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates mounted on card, mounts watermarked 1831-5, facsimile dedication, bookplates to pastedowns, manuscript title labels to reverse of seven of the plates, four titled in pencil on the mounts, plates clean and crisp; contemporary half calf portfolio, paper-covered boards with gilt title label to upper board, plates loose within as issued, extremities worn and boards a little soiled, but plates fine within.

Abbey (Scenery), 355; Prideaux p333; Sutton (The Daniells: Artists and Travellers).