1800s James DRUMMOND Engraving “Battle with Fighting Knights” Framed SIGNED COA$334.00
1800s James DRUMMOND Engraving “Battle with Fighting Knights” Framed SIGNED COA
$334.00
Artist: James Drummond RSA FSA (Scottish, 1816–1877)
Title: The Good Knight, War
Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by master engraver Peter Lightfoot (British, 1805-1885).
Year: 1861
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image size 7 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Battle, with knights fighting from battlements with bows and arrows; a monk holding a small crucifix to the face of a dying soldier; dead soldier lying in foreground at right; a bell ringing in a bell tower behind, surrounded by smoke and flames.
James Drummond RSA FSA (1816–1877) was an artist and the curator of the National Gallery of Scotland from 1868 to 1877. He was also an early photographer. He was born in 1816, in John Knox House in the Royal Mile, Edinburgh. He studied at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh under Sir William Allan. He was a member of the Photographic Society of Scotland and was photographed by Hill & Adamson around 1843. He was also a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. In November 1876 he is listed as their Curator of the Museum, along with Robert Carfrae. He produced a series of drawings of buildings in the Old Town later reproduced as lithographs. In later life he lived at 8 Royal Crescent in the New Town of Edinburgh. Drummond specialised in historical recreations: imaginary reconstructions of past events.
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