YOUNG KNIGHT on HORSE Waves to Maidens PRETTY GIRLS ~ 1866 Art Print Engraving

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YOUNG KNIGHT on HORSE Waves to Maidens PRETTY GIRLS ~ 1866 Art Print Engraving:
$16.79

THE CAVALIER

Artist: J. Herring____________ Engraver: J. C. Armytage

Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving

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AN ANTIQUE STEEL ENGRAVING MADE IN THE LATE 1860s!!

FROM THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: A picture on which the talents of three artists have been engaged: it is the \"companion\" work of one, \' The Trooper,\' that we are preparing for publication. To which of the three painters belongs the credit of the composition we cannot undertake to say, but that each has well sustained his own part in carrying out the originator\'s design is manifest enough. It is a bright, cheerful, animated picture, in spite of the grim towers and strong battlemented walls of the castle, whose age must go back to the feudal times, and which, doubtless, has withstood many an attack of beleaguering armies. Perhaps its strength and the courage of its defenders are about to be tested once more; for the Cavalier is a gentleman of the time of Charles the First; and though his horse does not, seem to be jaded as if it had traveled far and rapidly, its rider is evidently the bearer of some news to, the fair ladies, which by their action, and expression is anything but agreeable. Possibly his message is that the standard of rebellion has been raised in the country, that the people are ranging themselves under the banners of their respective leaders, and that the inmates of that time-worn and \"ivy-mantled\" castle must be prepared for action. Whether the composition was intended to bear such an interpretation we cannot tell, but it certainly admits of it; and it is quite as certain that the errand of the horseman is one of importance:, no words of gallantry or of courtly compliment have passed from him; his face is grave in its earnestness, while those of the ladies, are inquiring, with a mixture \'of surprise. Possibly the Cavalier is on his way: to join the ranks of the royalists, though at present he has not assumed the habiliments of war, and is not armed; but his horse is a noble charger, and would bear its owner well on the battle-field. Colton has drawn a graphic and pathetic picture of a war-horse lying dead on the snow-covered plains of Russia, on the retreat of the French after the conFlagration of Moscow in 1812. Mr. Herring\'s charger and dog, Mr. Baxter\'s handsome cavalier and graceful maidens, and Mr. Bright\'s ancient grey castle, \"come together,\" to adopt an artist\'s phrase, very picturesquely and brilliantly on this small canvas. . A triumvirate of painters engaged on one work, the size and character of this, is an unusual combination, though a similar instance is to be found in one we engraved last year, \'A Dream of the Future,\' painted by Messrs. Frith, Creswick, and Ansdell. In some of the works of the old Dutch and Flemish masters, we find one artist introducing figures into the landscape of another.

BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST: John Frederick Herring (born in Surrey, 1795; died in Meopham, Kent, 23 Sept 1863) was the most prolific and financially successful member of the Herring family of painters. His brother, Benjamin Herring (i) (b Surrey, 1806; d 1830), had a brief career largely devoted to producing passable imitations of the work of several early 19th-century sporting painters. Having eloped with Anne Harris to Doncaster at the age of 18, John Frederick began a seven-year career as a coach driver on regular routes to London and then Halifax, meanwhile practicing as a painter in his spare time. Work with horses and constant travel through the countryside may have stimulated his interest in animal and rural subject-matter-the areas in which he specialized after becoming a full-time professional artist c. 1820, having exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy in 1818. Regular employment was provided by the Doncaster Gazette for which, since 1815, he had been painting designs for engraved portraits of the annual winner of the St Leger. Later, in a similar series, he painted the winners of the Derby between 1827 and 1847. Prominent among his early private patrons were Charles Spencer-Stanhope and Frank Hawkesworth. He moved to Newmarket in 1830 and to Camberwell in 1833, where he fell into debt and was rescued by the industrialist W. T. Copeland. He lived for some years on the latter\'s estate in Essex and there produced, among many paintings, designs for hunting scenes to be used on Copeland Spode porcelain. Introductions to and commissions from Ferdinand, Duc d\'Orléans, Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent (1786-1861; to whom he was appointed Official Painter in 1845), and her daughter Queen Victoria helped to secure his reputation among the nobility. He was able to retire to a substantial (if leased) country estate in Meopham Park, Kent, in the early 1850s. His non-sporting works of the late 1850s are perhaps among the most successful of his total output, notably The Harvest of 1857 (New Haven, CT, Yale Cent. Brit. A.), which reveals his certain competence as a landscape and figure painter. His Memoir was published in Sheffield in 1848. All three of his sons, John Frederick (ii), Charles and Benjamin (ii), occasionally contributed to his canvases as well as painting their own.

PRINT DATE: This lithograph was printed in the 1860s; it is not a modern reproduction in any way.

PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 9 inches by 12 inches including white borders, actual scene is 7 inches by 9 inches.

PRINT CONDITION: Condition is fine. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse.

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Please note: the terms used in our sales for engraving, heliogravure, lithograph, print, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, NOT blocks of steel or wood. \"ENGRAVINGS\", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or \"engravings\" were inserted into the book with a tissue guard frontis, usually on much thicker quality rag stock paper, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone prints. So this sale is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper.

EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS EXCELLENT CONDITION!