Antique Print-ITALY-HARBOUR-SHIPS-WORKERS-TOURISTS-SUNSET-Dawe-Lorraine-1825

This print shows a view on the harbour with ships, workers and tourists in Italy. We see the sun shining from behind the hills.

Made by Henry Dawe after Claude Lorraine.

Medium: Engraving / etching / mezzotint on Wove paper.

Sheet size: 37 x 27.5 cm (14.57 x 10.83 inch). Image size: 26 x 18.5 cm. (10.24 x 7.28 inch).

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

ITALY-HARBOUR-SHIPS-WORKERS-TOURISTS-SUNSET | RBOS-A7-07

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was published in London by W.B. Cooke, 1825.

Biography artist: Claude Lorraine (1600-1682), also known as Claude Gellee, was a French Baroque painter who developed his own lyrical-romantic style of classicist landscape painting. Lorraine spent most of his life in Italy.