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.
Summer
94 x 113 mm
Etching, 1839. The plate signed and dated and inscribed Etching
Club. A fine impression, probably before the edition in 1844, the lettering very clear. Printed on laid china paper on wove. A small intrusion beneath the china paper in the bottom right corner in the plate margin. Trimmed in the margins of the support sheet.
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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.
Closely
related to Creswick’s painting The
Priory.
When
published in the Club’s Etch’d
Thoughts, it was accompanied
by the Keats sonnet
To
one who has been long in city pent
Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of Heaven – to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament…. |
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