Landscape with a couple wading across a river in the left foreground, a round building with a small square peaked tower on the crest of a small hill in the distance (after Guercino)
Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (1743 - 1779)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1770
Materials
paper
Measurements
350 x 530 mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286371.1
Summary
Etching, Landscape with a couple wading across a river in the left foreground, a round building with a small square peaked tower on the crest of a small hill in the distance (after Guercino) by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (1743-1779). One of two sepia coloured engravings after Guercino, signed 'AG 1770'. A landscape view is shown with a round building in the background, trees and the edge of a river. Several figures are shown, a woman and boy wading through the river watched by a dog. Good margin.
Marks and inscriptions
AG 1770 (signed)
Makers and roles
Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (1743 - 1779), engraver (printmaker) after Guercino (Cento 1591 – Bologna 1666) , artist