Dutch artist, diplomat, and museum director (1762-1844)

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The Old Church, Chelsea, looking along the bank with luxuriant trees in the centre, boats on the river. Aquatint.

A mounted man looks on while a shepherd girl milks a ewe. Aquatint by C. Apostool after K. du Jardin.

A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France, made in the autumn of l789 / By Samuel Ireland...the second edition, with additions; and an entire new set of copper-plates in aqua-tinta, from drawings made on the spot.

Cairo: the Citadel of Saladin and the Nile seen from Muqattam hills. Coloured aquatint by C. Apostool after A.B.G. van Dedem.

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Apostool, Cornelis, 1762-1844

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The Old Church, Chelsea, looking along the bank with luxuriant trees in the centre, boats on the river. Aquatint.

A mounted man looks on while a shepherd girl milks a ewe. Aquatint by C. Apostool after K. du Jardin.

A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France, made in the autumn of l789 / By Samuel Ireland...the second edition, with additions; and an entire new set of copper-plates in aqua-tinta, from drawings made on the spot.

Cairo: the Citadel of Saladin and the Nile seen from Muqattam hills. Coloured aquatint by C. Apostool after A.B.G. van Dedem.