Antique Master Print-GEORGE MORLAND-PAINTER-SMOKING PIPE-Vivares-Morland-1805

Original antique master print showing the painter George Morland smoking pipe at a Table with a Pig and a Dog on the foreground.

Made by Thomas Vivares after George Morland.

Medium: Soft-ground etching with original old hand colouring on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 55 x 41 cm (21.65 x 16.14 inch). Image size: 44 x 36.5 cm. (17.32 x 14.37 inch).

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

GEORGE MORLAND-PAINTER-SMOKING PIPE-PIG | DPO-A2-003-31

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in London by Edward Orme, dated 1805.

Biography engraver: Thomas Vivares (1744 – c.1823), British designer, landscape engraver. Son of landscape-engraver Francois Vivares (1709-80).

Biography artist: George Morland (1763-1804) was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes. He was born in London, third son of Henry Robert Morland. His father, artist, engraver and picture restorer. Morland’s work in painting is characterised by the simple subjects he painted. He depicted the life he knew from his own experience. Morland worked closely with William and James Ward, and later married their sister Anne.