Lovely Herbert RAILTON 1800s Original Etching “Staircase at Hatfield” FRAMED COA$309.00
Lovely Herbert RAILTON 1800s Original Etching “Staircase at Hatfield” FRAMED COA
$309.00
Artist: Herbert Railton (English, 1857-1910)
Title: Hatfield Staircase
Medium: Original etching on wove paper.
Year: 1886
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image 6 x 9 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Surmounting the posts are snarling lions holding shields of arms, and putti (cherubs), some playing music. The ceiling was decorated for Queen Victoria’s visit to Hatfield in 1846 and has recently been restored so that visitors will be now able to see it in all its glory. The rich golds and russets are complemented by a deep red silk paper which lines the walls and provides a sumptuous backdrop to the tapestries. The gates at the bottom of the stairs were put there to stop the dogs of the household reaching the state rooms and bedrooms. At the top, a carving on a newel post shows the figure of a gardener holding a rake. This is said to be John Tradescant, who was sent abroad by Robert Cecil to collect rare and exotic plants for his new garden at Hatfield. Some of them were hardly suited to the English climate: they included pomegranates, oleander, myrtle and thousands of vines.
Railton was born in Pleasington, near Blackburn, Lancashire, and educated at Mechlin in Belgium and Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire (England). He trained as an architect at the firm of W.S. Varley in Blackburn. He joined the local literary club where he met artist Charles Haworth, who became his mentor, and gave him further instruction in working in black and white. After his drawings of a railway accident at Blackburn station (1881) were published in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Railton went on to become one of the leading illustrators of his day. He moved to London and married Frances, another illustrator – they had one child, Ione, who also became an illustrator. Railton provided many black and white illustrations for magazines and books – including editions of books by famous authors such Thomas Hood (The Haunted House), Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson etc. and travel guides. Railton died of pneumonia in 1910, aged 53.
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