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HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, THE QUEEN
Artist: J. Gibson ____________ Engraver: T. W. Hunt |
Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving
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PRINT DATE: This lithograph was printed in 1849; it is not a modern reproduction in any way.
PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 8 1/2 inches by 11 1/2 inches including white borders, actual scene is 6 inches by 10 1/2 inches.
PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper.
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FROM THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: John Gibson (born June 19, 1790, Gyffin, Caernarvonshire, Wales, died Jan 27, 1866, Rome, Papal States [Italy] ) was a British Neoclassical sculptor who tried to revive the ancient Greek practice of tinting marble sculptures. In 1804 Gibson was apprenticed to a monument mason in Liverpool, where he remained until 1817. One of his first Royal Academy submissions, "Psyche Borne on the Wings of Zephyrus" (1816), was praised by John Flaxman, who persuaded him to go to Rome in 1817. There he was befriended by Antonio Canova, and he was also instructed after 1822 by Bertel Thorvaldsen. Invoking the ancient Greek practice of painting skin colour and facial details onto carved marble figures, Gibson introduced colour onto a statue of Queen Victoria done for Liverpool in 1847, tinting only the diadem, sandals, and robe hem. A repetition of the 1833 "Cupid Tormenting the Soul" was, however, completely coloured, and the best-known example of this polychromy was the "Tinted Venus" (1851-55), which caused a sensation when it was exhibited in London in 1862. Gibson's tinted sculptures are now regarded as mildly unpleasant, and they no doubt fall short of the vanished Greek practices that Gibson sought to imitate. Gibson was made a full member of the Royal Academy in 1838.
Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, etching, lithograph, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, and NOT blocks of steel or wood or any other material. "ENGRAVINGS", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were created by the intaglio process of etching the negative of the image into a block of steel, copper, wood etc, and then when inked and pressed onto paper, a print image was created. These prints or engravings were usually inserted into books, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone lithographs. They often had a tissue guard or onion skin frontis to protect them from transferring their ink to the opposite page and were usually on much thicker quality woven rag stock paper than the regular prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper.
A RARE FIND! AND GREAT DECORATION FOR YOUR OFFICE OR HOME WALL.
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