Name: Antique Master Print-SNOW-SCENE-SUSSEX-WINTER-Reeve-Cox-1840
SKU: PCO-1711
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Antique Master Print-SNOW-SCENE-SUSSEX-WINTER-Reeve-Cox-1840

€195.00

‘SNOW-SCENE, (BOTTOM CENTER); ORIGINALLY FROM THE STUDIO: SPECIAL NUMBERS, 1924’

– A calm winter landscape with a woman in red near a hedge in the foreground, a flock of sheep scattered across snow-covered fields, and distant cottages beneath a softly tinted sky. Bare trees and birds in flight complete the peaceful composition.

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Description

Medium: Aquatint etching with hand colouring on wove (vellin) paper. Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.

Sheet size: 32.5 x 23.1 cm (12.8 x 9.09 inch). Image size: 28.9 x 19.5 cm. (11.38 x 7.68 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. Paper edges with some small tears. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

DAVID COX, SUSSEX LANDSCAPE, SHEEP IN SNOW, STUDIO SPECIAL NUMBER, ENGLISH WATERCOLOR, SNOW-SCENE, PASTORAL WINTER | PCO-E30-42

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography engraver: Richard Gilson Reeve (1803-1889) was a British engraver and aquatint specialist best known for sporting and animal subjects. His finely colored prints captured the rural life and equestrian pursuits of 19th-century England.

Biography artist: David Cox (1783-1859) was a major English landscape painter and watercolorist of the Romantic period, known for fresh, expressive handling of rural scenery. He often painted in Wales and the English countryside, especially around Sussex and Birmingham.