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Charles Méryon (1821–1868) made his name producing etchings of the city of Paris, and became as accomplished at rendering the solidity of architecture as Piranesi. Méryon manages to do for the City of Light what Piranesi did for the Eternal City with his famous Veduti di Roma, celebrating the buildings while paying careful attention to the glamour of deterioration. I looked at the work of Méryon and Piranesi a lot when embarking on my Lovecraft adaptations and still regret not buying an expensive (for the time) book of Méryon’s work in the late Eighties. Happily there are plenty of museum sites now with his etchings in their collections.

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