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The present work consists of sepia-printed lithographs, realized by the lithographer Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789–1850) after Burgess's drawings. It is a set of pastoral landscapes, each featuring different species of large trees. Rural folk going about their routines provide a sense of scale.

Burgess and Hullmandel were among the earliest practitioners of lithography in England, which in this series replicates the tonal variations of a sepia ink wash drawing very effectively. Burgess's attention to the qualities of light exhibited in these prints links him to his contemporaries John Constable and J. M. W. Turner.

Henry William Burgess (London, c. 1792–1839) was an English artist (active 1809–1839) known particularly for his drawings of trees and landscapes. His medium was graphite and watercolour.

He was part of the a well-known dynasty of painters who flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries. His father was the portrait-painter William Burgess (1749–1812), and his grandfather was Thomas Burgess 1766–1786).

Based in Chelsea like the rest of his family, between 1809 and 1839 Burgess exhibited many works at the Royal Academy, the Suffolk Street Gallery, and the New Water-Colour Society in London.

He became landscape painter to William IV of England in 1826. At least one of his drawings is still in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, a distant view, with deer and horse and cart. He was also drawing master at Charterhouse School.