Original steel engraving with period hand coloring, engraved by Charles W. Marr after a painting by George Morland (1762-1804): a young woman with a laden basket and her hat in her hand pauses beside a fence, the village spire in the distance. Published in London by George Virtue.
Original steel engraving with period hand coloring, engraved by Charles W. Marr after a painting by George Morland (1762-1804): a young woman with a laden basket and her hat in her hand pauses beside a fence, the village spire in the distance. Published in London by George Virtue.
It comes from Allan Cunningham's The Cabinet Gallery of Pictures (London, 1833-1836), an anthology of seventy-two line engravings after the masters of the English and foreign schools.
Medium: Hand-colored steel engraving.
Artist / after: After George Morland (1762-1804).
Engraver: Charles W. Marr (active 1821-1836).
Date: c. 1834.
Source: The Cabinet Gallery of Pictures, by Allan Cunningham; London, George Virtue.
Dimensions: 7.6 x 9.7 in (19.4 x 24.6 cm).
Condition: Good condition; scattered foxing in the white margins, chiefly the lower and left ones, the image clean.