1800s WILLIAM BRIGHT MORRIS Detailed Engraving The Young Poet FRAMED SIGNED COA$284.00
1800s WILLIAM BRIGHT MORRIS Detailed Engraving The Young Poet FRAMED SIGNED COA
$284.00
Artist: William Bright Morris (1844-1896)
Title: Chatterton’s Half-Holiday
Medium: Antique steel engraving on wove paper after the original by master engraver William Ridgway (British, 1855 – 1885).
Year: 1875
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/2 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.
Chatterton’s Half-Holiday; the young poet in an attic room, leaning forward with his elbows on a round table below a dormer window on the left, one knee on a chair, resting his cheek against his right hand and holding a quill, reading old papers, with other bundles of papers littering the floor and spilling out of a cupboard behind and a chest in the left foreground.
William Bright Morris (landscape and subject painter), a member of the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours, and member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, was born at Salford in 1844. He received his early training at the Manchester School of Art under Mr. Muckley, and afterwards finished his studies at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools. He exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1869,”Chatterton.” In 1879, theCouncil of the Royal Manchester Institution awarded to Mr. Morris the Watts Prize of twenty five guineas for his picture Spanish Interior.
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