Print Description
Original antique master print, titled: ‘Playing at Draughts’. It shows two men at a table outside, playing draughts/checkers. A woman holding a small child is watching from the doorway, a dog lies at their feet.
Made by after an anonymous artist.
Medium: engraving / etching with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 39.5 x 51 cm (15.55 x 20.08 inch). Image size: 33.5 x 46 cm. (13.19 x 18.11 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Small unobtrusive creases. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
DRAUGHTS-CHECKERS-GAME-INN | DP-B1-20
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Original antique master print published by Boydell, in 1813. Our definition of a 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 and designed by Burnet. .
Biography engraver: John Burnet (1781-1868) was a Scottish painter and engraver. He was apprenticed to the engraver Robert Scott. In 1806 he moved to London where he became an established painter of portraits, landscapes and rural genre pieces. As an engraver he produced illustrations for editions of Burns’s poems and Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels.
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