This exhibition is organized and curated by Michael Thornton-Smith.
All works in the exhibition are selected from a private collection.
British Landscape Printmaking 1710-1880 is the story of the development and flowering of the Romantic movement and its engagement with the landscape. Printmaking became a vehicle for many artists who were constantly searching for new methods of personal expression in graphic media. This exhibition will show a progression from a formalized, arcadian view of the landscape to a more passionate involvement, with the rise of the Romantic Era and the depiction of the landscape of Great Britain and Western Europe. It is also within this time period we see the advent of the Industrial Revolution which was to produce one of the most fundamental changes in society; both urban and rural. To many it was seen as the beginnings of a commodification of the environment and the response by some of these artists was to disseminate an appreciation of nature and spirit of place. There will also be an attempt to bring into focus similarities with the dramatic changes and challenges that face us today. The story of British topographical printmaking in both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a story of transition in both techniques of the medium, engagement with the landscape and responses to dramatic changes in the environment.
The painters of this era turned to graphic media, either working independently or collaborating closely with professional engravers to create some of the most compelling and immediate artistic statements of the period. This exhibition will include engraving, etching, soft-ground etching, aquatint, lithography and mezzotint, there will be a section that describes the techniques of each process.
British Landscape Printmaking features the work of artists - J.M.W.Turner, John Constable, Thomas Girtin, Samuel Palmer, and "Norwich School" members John Sell Cotman and John Crome
List of Artists
Johannes Kip
Richard Parkes Bonington
Thomas Shotter Boys
Nathaniel and Samuel Buck
John Constable *
John Sell Cotman
Miles Edmund Cotman
John Middleton
John Ruskin
John Robert Cozens
John Crome
George Cuitt
William Hogarth
Thomas Daniell
William Daniell
Henry Davy
John Plimmer
David Charles Read
Jacob George Strutt
Joseph Farington *
Thomas Gainsborough
Philip James de Loutherbourg
The Reverend William Gilpin *
Thomas Girtin
Francis Seymour Haden
James Duffield Harding
Thomas Hearne *
Thomas Christopher Hofland *
Edward Lear
John Martin
Francis Nicholson
Samuel Palmer
Samuel Prout
William Pyne
Richard Redgrave
George Fennel Robson *
Thomas Rowlandson
Paul Sandby
Thomas Creswick
William Blake
William Bell Scott
George and John Smith
Joseph Stannard
J M W Turner
John Varley *
Richard Wilson *
* Denotes after
