Antique Master Print-CLASSICAL RUINS WITH FIGURES AND TOWER-Berthoud-1820

Medium: Etching on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 22 x 18 cm (8.66 x 7.09 inch). Image size: 15 x 10 cm. (5.91 x 3.94 inch).

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

RUINS, 18TH CENTURY, TOWER, ARCADIAN, RIVER, NEOCLASSICAL, PICTURESQUE, ETCHING | 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 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.