Title: Evening Near Harrow
Medium: Antique copper plate etching on thick wove paper.
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Dimensions: Image Size 4 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 14 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
A young girl standing three-quarter length to front, holding up a mouse in a cage trap with both hands, watched by a cat standing on a table to left; large urn behind to right, landscape with cottage through window at left.
Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style. With the founding of the Royal Academy in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first president and knighted by King George III.