’View taken from the Cemetery [Filaos Alley]’, a plate from Souvenirs de Maurice, one of a group of Mauritian folios sold by Domimic Winter for £15,500.
One of William Birch’s Philadelphia views from a set sold by Sotheby’s New York for $29,000 (£22,310).
Drawn from sales held in the last days of January in the UK and US, an artistic device of framing a view with trees in the foreground is demonstrated in the two plates reproduced here.