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


Tuesday, May 17, 2011

John Robert Cozens



John Robert Cozens  1752 - 1799  Fir 1789, from Delineations of the General Character
Ramifications and Foliage of Forest Trees, Soft-ground etching and aquatint.



Thomas Gainsborough 1727 - 1788 and John Wood 1720 - 1780  The Gipsies, 1754, Etching and   Engraving.


Thomas Gainsborough



Thomas Gainsborough 1727 - 1788  Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows, 1785, Aquatint.


Joseph Farington


Joseph Constantine Stadler  1780 - 1822 after Joseph Farington,  View of Reading from Caversham, 1793, from Boydell's History of the Thames, Aquatint.


Samuel Prout



Samuel Prout  1783 - 1852  Totnes, Picturesque Delineations in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall, 1812, Soft-ground etching.


John Varley



Frederick Christian Lewis  1779 - 1802 after John Varley,  Dolgelly, 1798, Aquatint.


The Reverend William Gilpin



William Sawrey Gilpin  1762 - 1843 after William Gilpin, Keswick Lake, Observations on the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland, 1772, Aquatint.


Francis Nicholson


Francis Nicholson  1753 - 1844, Torrent on Ben Vorlich 1806, Lithograph.


Thomas Girtin


Thomas Girtin  1755 - 1802, FC Lewis aquatint, View of Pont Neuf, A Selection of Twenty of the most 
Picturesque Views in Paris, 1802, Etching and Aquatint.



  Thomas Goff Lupton 1791 - 1873 after Thomas Girtin, Chelsea Reach looking towards Battersea, 1823.
  Mezzotint.


Thomas Rowlandson



Thomas Rowlandson  1756 - 1827,  Sketching the Lake, The Tours of Dr Syntax, 1820, Aquatint.


Thomas and William Daniell



Thomas and William Daniell, Near Gangwaugh Colly, on the River Hoogly, A Voyage to India by the way of China, 1810, Aquatint.


William Daniell



William Daniell  1769 - 1837,  Lynmouth, on the Coast of North Devon, from Voyage round Great Britain, 1814, Aquatint.



William Daniell  1769 - 1837, Loch Duich, Rosshire, from Voyage round Great Britain, 1818, Aquatint.



James Baker Pyne



Louis Haghe  1806 - 1895 after James Baker Pyne, Windermere from Orrest Head, from Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, 1859. Lithograph.


 

 





















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