Untitled (cottage and trees) by W.F. Wells after Thomas Gainsborough

 

Thomas Gainsborough

  1727 - 1788 (biography)

1802  

soft-ground etching with blue-green wash 

9 3/8 x 12 1/4" platemark 

unsigned, as usual (name printed below image) 

projected at 1000 

in stone, below image: "Published as the Act directs, Jan. 1st 1802; W.F. Wells. Sculpt" 

 

antique-white wove 

published 

Wells and LaPorte 

17314 

$300.00 

From: A Collection of Prints, Illustrative of the English Scenery, from the drawings of Gainsborough, 1801-1805. These 71 soft-ground etchings were published by W. F. Wells and J. Laporte, who etched them between March 1, 1802 and January 1, 1805: 31 prints in 1802; 28 in 1803; 9 in 1804 and 3 in 1805. Some of the copies were tinted by hand in one or more colors. There was a projected printing of 1000. There was a Boydell reissue in 1819 of 60 plates. 71 soft-ground etched plates, some with wash, some with scraped highlights. Published by Wells and LaPorte. One of 31 prints done in 1802.