* Nicholson (George, 1795?-1838). Views in the vicinity of Liverpool, 1832, a sketchbook comprising 17 pencil drawings of buildings and landscapes, mostly full-page on rectos, with a number of blank leaves, the first signed to lower right, some titled, e.g. 'Ancient Hall of the Ireland family, situated behind the Gatehouse called the Old Hut, Halewood. Property of John Blackburn Esqr. Weds. July 18th 1832', 'Pemberton nr. Wigan, July 21st', 'Woodchurch Church, May 28', 'West Dingle', 'Raby', sheet size 17.7 x 26.6cm (7 x 10.5ins), all edges gilt, original burgundy morocco gilt, rubbed, oblong 4toQty: (1)NOTESGeorge Nicholson was from a family of artists, and following his father's premature death in 1814, hastened by anxieties over debt, the whole family engaged in artistic work. Mr. Nicholson, who had been a school master in Manchester and a typographer in Liverpool, was a self-taught wood engraver, and had given both George and his brother, Samuel, instruction in drawing and engraving. Their mother executed skilful copies of well-known pictures hand-embroidered on silk, and their sister, Isabella, exhibited botanical watercolours and landscapes at the Liverpool Academy of Art between 1829 and 1845. George himself also exhibited there some 50 drawings between 1827 and 1838, mostly landscapes in watercolour or pencil. In 1821 he was awarded the silver Isis medal of the Society of Arts for a drawing of Stirling Castle. In 1821 and 1824 respectively he published Twenty-Six Lithographic Drawings in the Vicinity of Liverpool and Plas Newydd and Valle Crucis Abbey, as well as a volume entitled Eight Select Views, in the County of Carnaervon , published around 1827 under the patronage of the renowned Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby.