ANTIQUE PRINT PANGBORN & WHITCHURCH NEAR PURLEY 1793
FROM "A HISTORY OF THE RIVER THAMES" PUBLISHED BY JOHN AND JOSHIA BOYDELL IN 1793 AND 1795.
THE BROTHERS ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO INCLUDE THE RIVERS THAMES, SEVERN, FORTH AND CYDE, AND INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE AN ORIGINAL HISTORY OF THOSE RIVERS, INCLUDING ALL THAT ADORNS, DIGNIFIES OR ENRICHES THEM AND THEIR VICINITIES, WHETHER OF ART OR NATURE. THE PROJECT WAS ABANDONED AT THE COMPLETION OF THE HISTORY OF THE THAMES.
Joseph Constantine Stadler was a printmaker of German origins, working in London between 1780 - 1819. He specialised in aquatint.
Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a landscape painter and diarist. He studied in Manchester, and moved to London in 1763 to be taught in the studio of Richard Wilson. He became a member of the Society of Artists in 1765, joined the Royal Academy at its inception in 1769, and became an academician in 1785. He submitted work annually until 1801, and continued to exhibit at the academy until 1813.
OVERALL SIZE 35 CMS WIDE BY 24 CMS DEEP
IMAGE SIZE 32 CMS WIDE BY 20.5 CMS DEEP INCLUDING TITLE
IN ORIGINAL AQUATINT COLOURED CONDITION
THIS PRINT IS IN FAIRLY CLEAN CONDITION. HAS SOME TINY FOXING MARKS THAT CAN BE CLEANED OUT. ALSO HAS A TINY HOLE AT BOTTOM LEFT SIDE THAT CAN BE TAPED AT THE BACK, SO THAT IT WOULD NOT SHOW WHEN MOUNTED AND FRAMED.
WILL BE POSTED IN EITHER A LARGE ENVELOPE OR A CARDBOARD ROLL
GENUINE ANTIQUE PRINT
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