Old English colour printsSalaman, Malcolm C. (Malcolm Charles)
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Old English colour prints
Salaman, Malcolm C. (Malcolm Charles)
Color prints, English
No wonder all the engravers were agog to make copper-plates from his
quickly finished paintings. That charming spontaneity of picturesque
impression, with luminous harmony of tones, which distinguishes all
Morland’s pictures, even those painted in his least reputable days
of hand-to-mouth living, is reflected in the best engravings of his
multitudinous works. Of those printed in colours one may attempt a
selection from the point of view of especially fine quality and rarity.
Among the stipples, therefore, must be named again J. R. Smith’s
_Rustic Employment_ and _Rural Amusement_, _Delia in Town_ and _Delia
in the Country_, and the famous _Story of Letitia_ series--_Domestic
Happiness_, _The Elopement_, _The Virtuous Parent_, _Dressing for the
Masquerade_, _The Tavern Door_, and _The Fair Penitent_ (re-issued
in 1811 with the ample costumes of 1786 incongruously altered to the
current slim Empire fashion, upsetting, of course, the pictorial
balance of design). Then there are _Constancy_ (Mrs. Ward), _Variety_
(Mrs. Morland), and _Morning_; _Thoughts on Amusement for the
Evening_--a very rare oval--by William Ward; _Louisa_, a pair of
large ovals, _The Lass of Livingstone_, and _How Sweet to meet with
Love’s Return_, the famous _Dancing Dogs_, and _Guinea Pigs_, all by
T. Gaugain (the last pair re-issued by Phillipe); _The Tea Garden_
and _St. James’s Park_, by F. D. Soiron; _The Squire’s Door_ and
_The Farmer’s Door_, by Duterreau; _The Farmer’s Visit to his Married
Daughter in Town_, by W. Bond, and _The Visit Returned in the Country_,
by Nutter; _Industry_ and _Idleness_ (Mrs. Morland), by Knight, and
_The Fair Seducer_, and _The Discovery_, by E. J. Dumée.
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