Studies of Figures and Animals - Original Antique Anonymous Etching
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Antique etching with a sheet of loose studies: groups of peasants seated and dancing, cows at the ford, boats, a landing stage with barrels and a muleteer with his horse, scattered across the paper without a common ground. It is marked with the letter B at the upper left corner.
Antique etching with a sheet of loose studies: groups of peasants seated and dancing, cows at the ford, boats, a landing stage with barrels and a muleteer with his horse, scattered across the paper without a common ground. It is marked with the letter B at the upper left corner.
Sheets like this formed part of the model books with which amateurs and apprentices practised the staffage figures of landscape. As it carries neither caption nor signature, the author remains to be identified.
Medium: Copper engraving (etching).
Date: From the style and the dress, late 18th or early 19th century.
Dimensions: 7.3 x 10.2 in (18.6 x 26 cm).
Condition: Laid down on card. Paper browned, with marked folds and creases and damp stains in the right margin.
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Antique etching with a sheet of loose studies: groups of peasants seated and dancing, cows at the ford, boats, a landing stage with barrels and a muleteer with his horse, scattered across the paper without a common ground. It is marked with the letter B at the upper left corner.