A Cutter in a Hard Gale near the Eddystone Light House.
Atkins delt. Merke sculpt.
London: Pub. Dec. 1. 1801, by R. Ackermann, at his Repository of Arts, No. 101, Strand.
Aquatint with etching, an early issue. 280 x 350mm, 11 x 13¾". A fine impression, with full margins, uncut.
A gusty seascape, with a sailing boat on choppy waves, passing John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, Cornwall in the left background. Further boats in distance. After Samuel Atkins (British, 1760 - 1810). Numbered '5' lower right.
Not in Parker. The impressions in the BM have an 1810 imprint.
[Ref: 26770] £160.00
London: Pub. Dec. 1. 1801, by R. Ackermann, at his Repository of Arts, No. 101, Strand.
Aquatint with etching, an early issue. 280 x 350mm, 11 x 13¾". A fine impression, with full margins, uncut.
A gusty seascape, with a sailing boat on choppy waves, passing John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, Cornwall in the left background. Further boats in distance. After Samuel Atkins (British, 1760 - 1810). Numbered '5' lower right.
Not in Parker. The impressions in the BM have an 1810 imprint.
[Ref: 26770] £160.00