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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34. William Marshall Craig (ca. 1765-ca. 1828) Trees in a Landscape |
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Trees in a Landscape
Soft-ground etching, 1806, probably from Instructions in Drawing Landscape, London, 1814-15, 272 x 410 mm. Fine impression on wove paper trimmed on or just inside the platemark; printer’s crease at the far left and some spots of foxing, mostly verso. Craig exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy between 1788 and 1827. He was the official painter in watercolors to Queen Charlotte and drawing master to the Princess Charlotte. Such manuals of instruction in drawing were exceedingly popular in Britain, as drawing and watercolor painting were considered social graces, especially for women of the upper and middle classes. Though not a great artist, Craig knew whereof he drew and his representation of tree branching and foliage is informed and pleasing. His mastery of the technique of soft-ground etching is also impressive.
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$300.00 |  |
