The treatment of nature in English poetry between Pope and WordsworthReynolds, Myra
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The treatment of nature in English poetry between Pope and Wordsworth
Reynolds, Myra
English poetry -- History and criticism; Nature in literature
[580] These pictures of women and children are for the most part in
private galleries. But no artist has been more fully and adequately
represented in engravings than Reynolds. In the Print Room of the
British Museum there are twelve large albums of prints after his
paintings. There are also numerous reproductions in books such as
Cyril Davenport’s “Mezzotints,” Lord Gower’s “Sir Joshua Reynolds,”
Alfred Whitman’s “The Print Collector’s Handbook,” Gordon Goodwin’s
“British Mezzotinters,” and Julia Frankau’s “Eighteenth-Century
Colour-Prints.” The most important of the engravers of Reynolds’
pictures were James McArdell (1729–65), Valentine Green (1739–1813),
S. W. Reynolds (1773–1835), John Raphael Smith (1752–1812) and
Caroline Watson (1761?–1814). Valentine Green began in 1780 a series
of Reynolds’ “Beauties of the Present Age” on the plan of Lely’s and
Kneller’s “Beauties.” These engravings were originally issued at
fifteen shillings each, but they have increased enormously in value. At
a recent sale a proof of the “Duchess of Rutland” brought a thousand
pounds, nearly five times as much as Reynolds received for the original
picture (Salaman, “Old Engravers of England,” p. 138).
[581] It seems strange that Reynolds did not do more in the way of
pure landscape. In the South Kensington gallery is a pleasing little
brown landscape, “The Entrance to Mrs. Thrale’s Park at Streatham.”
Lord Gower in “Sir Joshua Reynolds, R.A.” reproduces a landscape in the
possession of Lord Northcote and entitled “A Study from Sir Joshua’s
Villa at Richmond Hill.” We find mention, also, of other landscapes,
but they form no significant part of his work.
[582] Sir Walter Armstrong, “Gainsborough and His Place in British
Art,” p. 171
[583] John C. Van Dyke, “Old English Masters,” p. 58.
[584] In the Wallace Gallery, London. Reproduced in Sir Walter
Armstrong’s “Gainsborough,” p. 88.
[585] Owned by the Lord Rothschild. Reproduced in Sir Walter
Armstrong’s “Gainsborough,” p. 124.
[586] These two pictures are in the Dulwich Gallery, London.
[587] Owned by the Lord Rothschild. Reproduced by Braun, Clement & Cie.
[588] Owned by Sir Algernon Neeld. Reproduced in Sir Walter Armstrong’s
“Gainsborough,” p. 140.
[589] For an account of the engravings from Gainsborough’s pictures see
H. P. Horne, “Engraved Works of Gainsborough and Romney,” 1891.
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