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After James Northcote, R.A. (1746-1831)

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After James Northcote, R.A. (1746-1831)

Vulture & Lamb. London: published by James Daniell & Co., June 24 1799. Sheet size: 20 x 25½ inches (528 x 647mm.), image area: 180 x 23½ inches (475 x 598mm.) Mezzotint, printed in colours, with additional hand-colouring, by William Samuel Reynolds. (Neatly repaired tears to lower blank margin and lower margin plate mark, some light surface scuffing). Window-mounted.

VERY RARE. A GOOD IMPRESSION OF THIS DRAMATIC COMPOSITION, on medium-weight wove paper, the addition of hand-colouring allowing the engraver to convey fully the artist's vision. This from the issue with artist and engraver's names and publication line printed onto the image area. Northcote, who worked as pupil and assistant to Sir Joshua Reynolds for five years from 1771, produced works in a number of genres: portraits, historical and subject pictures, morally instructive scenes and during the 1790s animal painting, usually involving big cats. The present image is one of a linked group of prints that he arranged to have engraved by Samuel Reynolds (1773-1835), James Murphy or Charles Turner. D.Snelgrove The Paul Mellon collection: British Sporting and Animal prints 1658-1874 p. 127; A. Whitman Samuel William Reynolds (1903) no.421.
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