ENGLISH FERRY Gypsies Gleaners Horse Dogs - 1883 Original Etching by Macbeth

Description: Print Specifics: Type of print: Original Etching Year of printing: not indicated in the print, actual: 1883 Etched by: R.W. Macbeth - Original artist: R.W. Macbeth Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, Publishers, New York Signature: Signed in plate (i.e. the artist scratched his signature into the original copper printing plate) Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 11.5 x 16.5 inches (29 x 42 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.Image dimensions: 6 x 10.5 inches. Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavy - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin). Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. 3. Due to its dimensions, the etching will be mailed rolled in a sturdy shipping tube. Original Narrative: THE scene of this etching is a Cambridgeshire ferry, with gipsies and gleaners crossing together. Mr. Macbeth has a picture of the same subject in progress, which will probably be exhibited at the Royal Academy this year. The time of day chosen for the picture is towards sunset. Mr. Macbeth has two distinct and opposite manners as an etcher—one comprehensive and sketchy, the other laborious and minute, with the fulness of a carefully-finished drawing, but none of the liberty of a sketch. Without undervaluing what Mr. Macbeth has done in laboured work, and without depreciating labour in itself (for some fine plates, by very great men, have been laborious), we still think that Mr. Macbeth's lighter manner is, of the two, the better adapted to etching. The plate before us is an excellent example of this manner. The reader will perceive in it the two great qualities of good etching — the suggestion of much truth both in drawing and chiaroscuro, and the employment of very simple, unpretending means. It is surprising when we reflect upon it, how much is conveyed in a sketch of this kind at the cost of a very little manual labour. We have as much composition as in the finished picture; we have a perfectly intelligible suggestion of light and shade ; and although the drawing is not carried far, it only requires, for its completion, the help of some knowledge and imagination in the spectator himself. It is like rapid handwriting in which the letters are not fully formed, yet sufficiently suggested, if the reader is intimately acquainted with the language. Mr. Macbeth was born in 1848. He studied at the schools of the Royal Academy in 1871 and 1872. His most important works have been Phillis on the new-made Hay, A Lincolnshire Gang, A Potato Harvest, Coining from St. lves Market, A Sardine Fishery, and A Fen Flood, exhibited in the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. Most of these pictures have been etched by the painter. It has happened, we believe, occasionally, that the etching has preceded the picture. Sometimes the etching has been done from the finished picture, and sometimes from the first dead colouring or rough sketch on the canvas. We are inclined to think that as a general rule artists who etch their own pictures would do wisely not to wait until they are finished. The finished picture offers too much, and has a tendency to reduce the etcher, even when he himself is the author of the work, to the position of a copyist-engraver. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

Price: 38.21 USD

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