Lovely 1800s Thomas UWINS Engraving Embrace of Cupid & Psyche FRAMED SIGNED COA$649.00
Lovely 1800s Thomas UWINS Engraving Embrace of Cupid & Psyche FRAMED SIGNED COA
$649.00
Artist: Thomas Uwins (English, 1782 – 1857)
Title: Cupid and Psyche
Medium: Antique engraving on thick wove paper after the original by master engraver Lumb Stocks (British, 1812 – 1892).
Year: 1855
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 7 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Cupid and Psyche; Psyche sitting on a rock, naked to the waist, looking to right at the winged youth who kneels beside her, cradling her head in his right hand, taking her hand with his left and embracing her, his bow resting on her upturned urn on the ground between them, mountains in the background; arched format.
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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