Antique Print-LANDSCAPE-HUNTSMEN WITH HOUNDS-Gibbon-Velde-c.1820

This print shows a three huntsmen with hounds.

Made by Benjamin Phelps Gibbon after Adriaen van de Velde .

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: fragment.

Sheet size: 9.6 x 7.7 cm (3.78 x 3.03 inch). Image size: 8.5 x 6.3 cm. (3.35 x 2.48 inch).

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

LANDSCAPE-HORSEMAN-DOGS-MAN SITTING-HILL WITH TREE-HUNTERS | RBOS-A8-19

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

After a drawing in BM. Age 1820-1835.

Biography engraver: Benjamin Phelps Gibbon (1802-1851) was a British printmaker from Penally, Pembrokeshire.

Biography artist: Adriaen van de Velde (1636-1672), was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker from Amsterdam. Animal & landscape painter and etcher, worked in Amsterdam. Active as etcher from 1653. Son of Willem van de Velde I and a pupil of Jan Wijnants in Haarlem around 1657. Often painted the figures in other painters’ paintings.