Antique Master Print-LANDSCAPE-ANIMALS-COW-TREES-MEADOW-Janson-1820

This print shows a view on a landscape with standing and lying cows. With trees in the background.

Made by after an anonymous artist.

Medium: Etching / engraving on wove paper.

Sheet size: 31 x 39 cm (12.2 x 15.35 inch). Image size: 24 x 32 cm. (9.45 x 12.6 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Remains of paper tape in edges on reverse. Text written in pencil on reverse. Creases in margin. Tear restored in right margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

LANDSCAPE-ANIMALS-COW-TREES-MEADOW | RBOS-T.44-LARGE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was published ca. 1820.

Provenance: Collectors mark in pencil on reverse: AK, Amersfoort.

Biography engraver: Pieter Janson (1765-1851) was a Dutch engraver born in ‘s-Hertogenbosch whose main themes were rural landscapes and animals. He was a pupil of his father Johannes Janson (1729-1784) in Leiden. In 1796 he joined the army and went to Russia in 1812.