Religious JOSEPH DURHAM Antique 1800s Engraving \"Striking the Rock\" FRAMED COA
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Religious JOSEPH DURHAM Antique 1800s Engraving \"Striking the Rock\" FRAMED COA:
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Artist:Joseph Durham (English,1814-1877)
Title: Striking the Rock
Medium:Antiqueengraving on wove paper after the original Bronze Fountain at Guildhall by master engraver William Roffe.
Year:1869
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 6 x 8 5/8 inches.
Framed dimensions: Approximately 15 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Additional notes:
This is not a modern print. This engraving is more than 140 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. The original is taken froma very beautiful drinking fountain on the western side of Guildhall Yard as a memorial.
Extra Information:The figure of the great Hebrew leader and lawgiver is imposing: he stands in seeming reverential awe- his hand stretched slightly forward, and his hand is partially bent down- contemplating the stream which flows forth from the arid rock, and apparently wondering at the miracle of God had given him the power to accomplish. On the other side of the composition is a touching group: a young Jewish mother holding a cup of water to the lips of her infant, who, with child like eagerness, increased by its suffering from the drought, presses the vessel to its mouth, as if otherwise it could not drink fast enough. There is something very true in nature in this action of the child; and doubtless, with characteristic natural love- a feeling foe which the Hebrew matron has in all ages been especially distinguished- this mother has supplied the want of her offspring before she has satisfied her own necessity. Artist Biography:
Joseph Durham was an English sculptor. Durham was born in London in 1814 and was apprenticed to John Francis, a decorative carver. He later worked in the studio of E. H. Baily for three years, and exhibited his first piece of sculpture in the Royal Academy in 1835. Photograph of a stone bust of a young woman looking directly at the reader. The stone appears to be white marble. Her hair is cut well above her shoulders. She is wearing a dress that hangs loosely from her shoulders, leaving her neck and upper chest bare. Bust of Jenny Lind. His busts of Jenny Lind (1848) and of Queen Victoria (1856) attracted a great deal of attention the former proving particularly popular when reproduced in Parian ware by Copeland. A statue by him of Sir Francis Crossley was erected at Halifax. He executed four statues for the portico of London University in Burlington Gardens. In 1858 he won the commission for the Memorial to the Great Exhibition of 1851, which ultimately included the electrotyped statue of Albert, Prince Consort following Albert\'s death in 1861. Durham had originally planned that the main figure should be a representation of Britannia. The Memorial was erected in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Kensington in 1863, and was moved to a site near the Royal Albert Hall in around 1890. A commission from the Duke of Buccleuch, a statue of the Duke\'s younger brother - John Douglas Montagu Douglas Scott - was erected in Dunchurch and unveiled by the Duke in September 1867. Between 1835 and 1878 Durham exhibited 126 pieces of sculpture at the Royal Academy and six at the British Institution. He was noted for his figures of boys engaged in sporting activities. A porcelain reproduction of his sculpture Go to Sleep was distributed as a prize to members of the Art Union of London in 1865. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1866. One of his major works was a Leander and the Syren, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1875. His statues entitled Hermione and Alastor were purchased for the Mansion House. He died in London, after a long illness, on 27 October 1877.
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Religious JOSEPH DURHAM Antique 1800s Engraving \"Striking the Rock\" FRAMED COA:
$109.50