Artist: Henry Warren (British, 1794-1879)
Title: The Fount in the Desert
Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original by master engraver Edward Radclyffe (British, 1810-1863).
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Dimensions: Image size 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
A man wearing a long gown and fez, drinking from a gourd held for him by another man who stands by a well under a dome in the desert, his pipe and books resting against the parapet on the left, while a servant stands with a camel behind to right.
Henry Warren (1794 – died 1879) was a British 19th Century artist an oil and watercolor painter. Henry Warren spent much of his career in America, living, according to the census, from about 1822 to 1860 in Philadelphia where he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy.