Print Description
Medium: Etching on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 20 x 16.5 cm (7.87 x 6.5 inch). Image size: 12.2 x 6.1 cm. (4.8 x 2.4 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Minor foxing, light spot near top sail. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
THOMAS KITCHIN, MARITIME, SAILING SHIP, NAVAL, 18TH CENTURY, LONDON, HOLBORN, COMMERCIAL ENGRAVING | BOX-LANDSCAPES
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
A COLLECTION OF LANDSCAPES, VIEWS, SHIPPING & ANIMALS, BY VERNET, VIVARES, SNYDERS, &c. NINETY PLATES. LONDON: Printed by Schulze, 13, Poland Street, For H. Berthoud, Bookseller, 28, Soho Square. 1820.
Biography engraver: Thomas Kitchin?(1718-1784)?was an?English?engraver?and?cartographer, who became?hydrographer?to the king. He was also a writer, who wrote about the history of the?West Indies.
Biography artist: Publisher: Henry Berthoud (1794-1864) was a painter and printmaker born in London on April 8, 1794. Son of the Swiss watchmaker Henry Berthoud Sr. (q.v.) and Ann Wiswall of London. Associated with his father’s publishing company in the Regent’s Quadrant, Piccadilly, from the early 1820s, initially as a printmaker and then as full partner. After the company went bankrupt in 1828, and following a short stay in the Fleet Prison, Henry Jr. moved to Paris where he continued as a printmaker and painter. He divided his time between London (exhibition in Suffolk Street, 1846) and Paris (paintings exhibited at the Salon, 1843-1849) where he died on September 25, 1864. He married twice, first to Marianne Flieguer in London in 1818 and then, after her premature death in 1822 (perhaps in childbirth), to (Victoire-) Elisabeth Chomel (d. 1848) in Paris in 1844. His only child, Maria (b. 1821), from his first marriage, also died prematurely in 1836.
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