Description

Mounted Soldiers Leading a Cart along a Trail.

Made by Johannes Adriaansz. Bemme after Dirk Langendyk.

Medium: Etching on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 17.8 x 20.8 cm (7.01 x 8.19 inch). Image size: 11.1 x 14 cm. (4.37 x 5.51 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light staining. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MOUNTED-SOLDIERS-CART-TRAIL | PCO-C21-35

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate 3 from a set of six Landscapes with Military Staffage, 1804.

Reference: Hollstein Dutch 78.

Biography engraver: Johannes Adriaansz. Bemme (1775-1841) was a Dutch etcher. Bemme was apprenticed to his father, the goldsmith and medal engraver, Adriaan Jansz. Bemme (1753-1831) and later studied in Rotterdam under the por?traitist, August Christian Hauck, as well as the better-known painter and draughtsman, Dirk Langendijk. After his father died, Bemme moved to The Hague, where he worked mostly as a medal maker, although he also had a sideline as a reproductive engraver.

Biography artist: Dirk Langendijk (1748-1805), written as Langendyk in his day, was a Dutch draughtsman, painter and etcher. He produced mainly depictions of land and sea battles and other military scenes from the Dutch “Patriottentijd” (circa 1780-1800) and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (from 1792).