NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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24. George Morland (1763-1804) Peasants Resting in a Forest Grove |
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Peasants Resting in a Forest Grove
Original drawing in pen and black ink and grey wash with scratching-out on laid paper, ca. 1795, 203 x 286 mm., ex collection: Unidentified with an acquisition date of Nov., 1885. The drawing is not signed, but is inscribed with Morland’s name verso in several different hands. The subject, composition and figural types are all typical of his work.
Morland was, above everything else, the artist of rural life in England. Whether it was animals, peasants, gypsies or the upper classes out for a picnic or day of shooting, Morand captured them in bucolic scenes with which almost every Englishman could identify. In close-ups he tended toward a sentimental prettification, but the larger vistas show a strength and honesty of depiction that is admirable. This superb drawing, rapidly limned, then finished in wash with scratched-out highlights, studies figures in sunlight and shade in a setting of rocks and old twisted trees.
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$3,500.00 |  |
