Antique Master Print-COTTAGE-HOUSEWIFE-SPINNING-PIG-CAT-Turner-Singleton-1803

Original antique master print, titled: ‘The Industrious Cottage Wife’. It shows: a housewife, seated outside her cottage. Her young son is feeding the pigs, while a cat is seated next to her. She is spinning. Rare print.

Made by Charles Turner (1773-1857) after Henry Singleton.

Medium: etching and mezzotint engraving, coloured a-la-poupee with watercolour highlights on wove paper.

Sheet size: 50 x 70.5 cm (19.69 x 27.76 inch). Image size: 44 x 64 cm. (17.32 x 25.2 inch).

Condition: fair, given age. Margins irregular with small tears and paper loss, partly closed/repaired. One tear into the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

COTTAGE-HOUSEWIFE-SPINNING-PIG-CAT | DP-A1-001-24

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Master print published by H. Sass, London in 1803. Our definition of master print is: a seperately published print or series of prints, not being an illustrative print to a text. These can both be prints made by old masters (artists) or prints made by others (artists, engravers, etchers) after old masters. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by C. Turner after H. Singleton.

Biography engraver: Charles Turner (1773-1857) was an English mezzotint engraver and draughtsman. Through his mother’s influence he had access to the famous gallery at Blenheim Palace. Turner moved to London in about 1789, was apprenticed to the engraver John Jones, enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools and worked for Alderman John Boydell, the important print publisher. Turner was skilled in stipple and aquatint as well as mezzotint, his diverse talents producing a large range of subjects covering topography and genre. His main interest, though, was portraiture, and the greater part of the more than six hundred plates he created during his career, were portraits. His close friendship with J.M.W. Turner, led to his engraving much of the artist’s work, and to his engraving twenty-four of the plates for Liber Studiorum. He engraved many of the finest Henry Raeburn portraits, including Sir Walter Scott. A remarkable set of his engravings, “The Rivers of England”, published between 1823 and 1827, confirmed his great ability as a landscape artist. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1828.

Biography artist: Henry Singleton (1766-1839) was an English painter, born into an artistic family in London. He was mainly known for his portraits.