Original steel engraving "Returning Home": a group of countrymen with their pack animals returning at dusk along a road between tall trees, with the river and the mountains beyond. Engraved by W. Chevalier after a painting by Both and published in London by George Virtue.
Original steel engraving "Returning Home": a group of countrymen with their pack animals returning at dusk along a road between tall trees, with the river and the mountains beyond. Engraved by W. Chevalier after a painting by Both and published in London by George Virtue.
The original is by the Dutch landscape painter Jan Both (c. 1618-1652), a master of the Italianate golden light that counted for so much in later English landscape.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: Jan Both
Engraver / lithographer: W. Chevalier
Date: 19th century
Source: Published in London by George Virtue
Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 in (24 x 18.5 cm)
Condition: Good condition; paper with wide margins and an occasional small stain.