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Thomas
Creswick R.A.
Sheffield
1811 - 1869 Bayswater, London
A landscape painter, Creswick was
amongst the earliest of British artists to paint
directly from nature in the open air. He had settled
in London in 1836 and was a foundation member of
The Etching Club in 1838. Light permeates his earliest
etchings and in this respect he anticipates Palmer's
approach.
Moonlight
94 x 151 mm
Etching,
1839. The plate signed, dated and inscribed Etching
Club. A fine impression, probably before the
1844 edition. The lettering very clear, on laid
china paper on wove. Trimmed in the margins
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Additional
Information about the Print
Etched
for one of the Club’s early sessions and
initially only printed in a few impressions,
it was not widely published till 1844, in the
Club’s folio album Etch’d Thoughts.
When
issued in the Etching Club’s Etch’d
Thoughts, 1844, it was accompanied by lines
from Shelley’s “The Cloud”
That
orbed maiden, with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon … |
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