![[A View of Trent, in the Tyrol.]](jpegs/48491.jpg)
[A View of Trent, in the Tyrol.]
Painted by Sir A.W. Callcott, R.A. Engraved by James B. Allen.
London, Published July 1, 1840, by the Proprietors [Edward & William Finden] No. 18 & 19, Southampton Place, Euston Square, Sold also by F.G. Moon, Threadneedle Street & Ackermann & Co. Strand
Proof engraving on chine collé. 365 x 610mm (14˝ x 24"), with very large margins.
A view of Trento (anglicised as Trent), formerly part of Austria but annexed by Italy in 1919. Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844), a friendly rival of J.M.W. Turner, made Keeper of the Queen's Pictures in 1843. He painted this picture for his friend Samuel Cartwright, a dentist. Exhibited at the R.A. in 1836, The Times newspaper commented that to ''look at Callcott's 'Trent in the Tyrol' after a dose of Turner's 'Mercury and Argus' is as cool and refreshing as iced champagne after mulligatawny''. This plate was engraved for Finden's 'Gallery of British Art'.
[Ref: 48491] £160.00
London, Published July 1, 1840, by the Proprietors [Edward & William Finden] No. 18 & 19, Southampton Place, Euston Square, Sold also by F.G. Moon, Threadneedle Street & Ackermann & Co. Strand
Proof engraving on chine collé. 365 x 610mm (14˝ x 24"), with very large margins.
A view of Trento (anglicised as Trent), formerly part of Austria but annexed by Italy in 1919. Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844), a friendly rival of J.M.W. Turner, made Keeper of the Queen's Pictures in 1843. He painted this picture for his friend Samuel Cartwright, a dentist. Exhibited at the R.A. in 1836, The Times newspaper commented that to ''look at Callcott's 'Trent in the Tyrol' after a dose of Turner's 'Mercury and Argus' is as cool and refreshing as iced champagne after mulligatawny''. This plate was engraved for Finden's 'Gallery of British Art'.
[Ref: 48491] £160.00