![[Road by Park Palings.] [&] [Road Scene, Trowse Hall.]](jpegs/57579.jpg)
[Road by Park Palings.] [&] [Road Scene, Trowse Hall.]
[by John Crome.]
[Norfolk, for the benefit of his widow, 1834.]
Two etchings and drypoint on chine collé, on one sheet. 105 x 175mm (4¼ x 7") & 230 x 200mm (9 x 8"), sheet with large margins. Backing paper foxed.
Two etchings of rural Norfolk, etched in 1812 & 1813 by John Crome (1768-1821), a founding member of the Norwich School of painters and one of the first 19th-century Britons to use etching as an expressive tool, anticipating the Etching Revival. Although Crome issued a prospectus for his etchings, none were published in his lifetime. In 1834 sixty sets titled ''Norfolk Picturesque Scenery, Consisting of Thirty-One Etchings'' were issued to benefit his widow.
Theobald 19 (only state) & 2 (state iii of iv).
[Ref: 57579] £320.00
[Norfolk, for the benefit of his widow, 1834.]
Two etchings and drypoint on chine collé, on one sheet. 105 x 175mm (4¼ x 7") & 230 x 200mm (9 x 8"), sheet with large margins. Backing paper foxed.
Two etchings of rural Norfolk, etched in 1812 & 1813 by John Crome (1768-1821), a founding member of the Norwich School of painters and one of the first 19th-century Britons to use etching as an expressive tool, anticipating the Etching Revival. Although Crome issued a prospectus for his etchings, none were published in his lifetime. In 1834 sixty sets titled ''Norfolk Picturesque Scenery, Consisting of Thirty-One Etchings'' were issued to benefit his widow.
Theobald 19 (only state) & 2 (state iii of iv).
[Ref: 57579] £320.00