A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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The Oak in Penshurst Park. Under which Sir Philip Sydney is said to have composed his Arcadia.
WB del Nov. 16th 1809.
Aquatint with engraving. 325 x 255mm (12¾ x 10"), with large margins top and bottom. Trimmed to plate at sides.
A blasted oak with a door-size entrance into its trunk, cows grazing. Underneath is a ten-line verse praising the oak, signed 'F.D.C'. In 1977 Blackwell’s Antiquarian Department suggested that the artist was William Blake; an article in 'Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly' (1979) discusses the possibility and discounts it on stylistic grounds, although suggests the author of the verse was Frances Dorothy Cartwright (1780-1863).
https://bq.blakearchive.org/13.3.bentley
[Ref: 60248] £360.00
WB del Nov. 16th 1809.
Aquatint with engraving. 325 x 255mm (12¾ x 10"), with large margins top and bottom. Trimmed to plate at sides.
A blasted oak with a door-size entrance into its trunk, cows grazing. Underneath is a ten-line verse praising the oak, signed 'F.D.C'. In 1977 Blackwell’s Antiquarian Department suggested that the artist was William Blake; an article in 'Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly' (1979) discusses the possibility and discounts it on stylistic grounds, although suggests the author of the verse was Frances Dorothy Cartwright (1780-1863).
https://bq.blakearchive.org/13.3.bentley
[Ref: 60248] £360.00