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


Wednesday, May 18, 2011

WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION


Johannes Kip   Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, 1710, Engraving




Nathaniel and Samuel Buck  Dinas Bran Castle, Wales,  1750, Engraving.




Richard Earlom  1742 - 1822, after Claude Lorrain, from the Liber Veritatis, 1777, Mezzotint




George and John Smith  1713 - 1776 / 1717 - 1764, Untitled, 1760, Engraving.




William Bryne 1743 - 1805, after Richard Wilson,  Carnarvon Castle, 1776, Engraving.




 William Woollett  1735 - 1785, after Richard Wilson, Snowden Hill, and the adjacent Country in North Wales, 1775, Engraving.




William Woollett 1735 - 1785 after George Smith of Chichester,  Engraving




William Woollett 1735 - 1785 after Richard Wilson, Celadon and Amelia, 1766, Engraving.




Paul Sandby 1731 - 1809,  View of the River Dee, 1776, Aquatint.




William Hogarth  1697 - 1764,  View of Ranby's House, 1781, Etching.
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