Milk Below Maids, Cries of London - Colored Stipple Engraving - Wheatley
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Antique colored engraving from the Cries of London series, with the milkmaid and her pails before a London doorway, accompanied by two children and a dog. A stipple engraving by Luigi Schiavonetti after the painting by Francis Wheatley.
Antique colored engraving from the Cries of London series, with the milkmaid and her pails before a London doorway, accompanied by two children and a dog. A stipple engraving by Luigi Schiavonetti after the painting by Francis Wheatley.
The series of the London street cries, made up of thirteen subjects painted by Wheatley and printed in color between 1793 and 1797, is one of the most widely circulated in English printmaking, and Milk below Maids one of its most recognizable images.
Medium: Stipple engraving, colored.
Artist / after: Francis Wheatley (1747-1801).
Engraver: Luigi Schiavonetti (1765-1810).
Source: Cries of London series.
Dimensions: Sheet 10.6 x 8.7 in (27 x 22 cm).
Condition: Slight foxing in the area of the sky; good general condition.
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Antique colored engraving from the Cries of London series, with the milkmaid and her pails before a London doorway, accompanied by two children and a dog. A stipple engraving by Luigi Schiavonetti after the painting by Francis Wheatley.