Original 19th-century steel engraving, hand-colored, with the view "At Burnham Beeches", the old beech wood of Buckinghamshire, England. Drawn by Myles Birket Foster and engraved by Arthur Willmore; the publisher Cassell & Company Limited, London, is lettered below.
Original 19th-century steel engraving, hand-colored, with the view "At Burnham Beeches", the old beech wood of Buckinghamshire, England. Drawn by Myles Birket Foster and engraved by Arthur Willmore; the publisher Cassell & Company Limited, London, is lettered below.
Birket Foster (1825-1899) was one of the most admired English landscape painters and illustrators of his day, and Arthur Willmore (1814-1888) one of the steel engravers most in demand to translate his work into print.
Medium: Steel engraving, hand-colored.
Artist / after: Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899).
Engraver: Arthur Willmore (1814-1888).
Date: 19th century.
Source: Cassell & Company Limited, London.
Dimensions: Image 5.7 x 10.0 in (14.6 x 25.3 cm).
Condition: Good. Paper with wide margins and a light patina of age.