W.French. Judenkirchhoff. Antique copper engraving. 19th cen.

Englischen Kunstanstalt von A.H. Payne, Leipig und Dresden.

Size of the image: 10.5 x 15.5 cm. (4.1 x 6.1 inches)

Size with fields: 20 x 27.5 cm. (7.8 x 10.8 inches)

Condition: some small damages to the fields: 2 stains from strip, tear and spme creasing to top.

Engraving in good condition.

William French ( around 1815; † January 8, 1898 in East Grinstead, Sussex) was an English engraver.
French made line-style engravings based on paintings by English contemporaries as well as old masters and other popular earlier masters. In Leipzig he worked with Albert Henry Payne, for whose company “Payne & Brain” he made several engravings for illustrations. He later worked for “Virtue, Hall & Co.” in London. He gained great recognition in England for an engraving based on a painting by Crowe, which depicts one of Cromwell's subordinates addressing his soldiers.[1] He also made several engravings for Adolph Görling's Germany's art treasures: a collection of the most outstanding pictures from the Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, Cassel and Braunschweig galleries or Rosa Mulholland's The Little Flower Seekers.[2] His engravings were in demand and were sold at auctions.