1800s ORIGINAL R. Kent Thomas Detailed Etching MERTON COLLEGE Framed Signed COA$299.00
1800s ORIGINAL R. Kent Thomas Detailed Etching MERTON COLLEGE Framed Signed COA
$299.00
Artist: Robert Kent Thomas (British, 1816-1884)
Title: Merton College
Medium: Antique Etching on laid paper.
Year: 1879
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower right.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Merton is one of the oldest and most beautiful colleges in Oxford with medieval and 17th-century buildings – including our 13th-century chapel – and glorious, extensive gardens protected by the city wall.
Thomas specialized in the techniques of engraving and lithography on vedutas, highly detailed city or landscapes. Thomas was exceptionally talented. He had a truthful way of seeing things and putting them on paper. He was an excellent representative of the class of artists who, without imaginative invention, see clearly, and interpret rapidly and skillfully, what they see. Thomas was most skillful with the etching needle and after his death left behind many plates of excellent quality in their kind.
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