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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.
The Blacksmithy Shop
84 x 127 mm
Etching
1838. With the etched signature, date, title and
the words Etching Club, in the lower
plate border. An early fresh, clear impression, printed
on laid china paper on wove. Probably before
the 1844 edition. Trimmed in the margins and with
slight foxing.
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Additional
Information about the Print
Etched
at one of the Club’s
earliest evening gatherings, and loosely related
to a Creswick painting, The
Blacksmithy Shop was only printed in a few
impressions in 1838. It was not widely published
till six years later, in 1844, in the Etching Club’s
album Etch’d Thoughts, with
the title ‘The Smithy’ and accompanying
the poem “The Smithy” by Henry W. Longfellow
Under
a spreading Chestnut tree
The village Smithy stands;… |
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