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Barker selected from his studies of Rustic Figures after 
nature. Published by subscription at Bath, December. 
This may be taken as the first printed use of the word 
lithographic. The plates all figures, are mounted in the folio and 
are all good ; some, being on toned paper, are specially strong. 
The volume as a whole must have given a clear idea of the 
intention, as being the reproduction of drawings exactly 
showing every characteristic of the artist. No more than 
two. hundred copies were promised at a subscription price of 
£3 3s., non-subscribers £5 5s., and had the work been a success 
this would have produced a good profit. The list of subscribers, 
however, shows but one hundred and seventeen for one hundred 
and eighteen copies, aud probably there were no other sales. 
Mr. Barker also planned the issue of a volume of sketches from 
Italian peasants, but this was never done. Mr. Barker next issued 
in folio, in 1814, another volume differing in style, for the purpose 
of showing how the art could be applied. This work is entitled :— 
Thirty-two Lithographic impressions from pen drawings of 
Landscape scenery. Published at Bath. Printed under 
the direction of Mr. Barker by D. Redman. 
Fifty copies only were printed. The title cover is lithographed, 
the etched part being by Mr. Barker and the written part by 
C. Marsh. The plates are landscapes, some from the neighbour- 
hood as Wick Rocks and Mells, others from Wales. They are 
drawn with a pen as free etchings without shading. Close 
examination shows them to be good and pleasing. Four numbers 
was the issue originally planned at one guinea and-a-half each 
number, but this plan was changed and the whole was put into one. 
Several amateur attempts were at this time done at Bath. Mr. 
Richard Warner did a sketch portrait of Jedediah Buxton. Sir 
Richard Hoare did a large landscape, and there were others by 
Mr. Lowther and Mr. W. Hagarth. Mr. Hutchinson did portraits 
of Capt. Baillie, Mr. Lintern of Bath, John Colston Doyle, and ~ 
Mr. Geo. Wilkinson. Others were by Mr. Jennings and Mr. 
