Enchanting 1800s THOMAS UWINS Etching “The Young Hop-Gatherer” Framed Signed COA$274.00
Enchanting 1800s THOMAS UWINS Etching “The Young Hop-Gatherer” Framed Signed COA
$274.00
Artist: Thomas Uwins ( English, 1782-1857)
Title: The Hop-Gatherer
Medium: Antique etching on thick wove paper after the original watercolor by master etcher Charles Oliver Murray (Scottish, 1842-1923).
Year: 1891
Signature: Signed in the plate
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
A young girl, her head covered with hops, kneels beside her basket and looks over her shoulder laughing. On the left side is a stone bottle, on the right a female seen among the bine.
Thomas Uwins was an English portrait, subject, genre and landscape painter (in watercolour and oil), and a book illustrator. He became a full member of the Old Watercolour Society and a Royal Academician, and held a number of high-profile art appointments including librarian of the Royal Academy, Surveyor of Pictures to Queen Victoria and Keeper of the National Gallery.
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