Three figures including a child in a box-chair carried between two horses, led by a man on foot, approaching around the bend of a path with zig-zags upwards between wooded hillsides, with a large tree on the right leaning diagonally to left and the valley in the distance below to right (after a drawing by Salvator Rosa dated 1759)
Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (1743 - 1779)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1759
Materials
paper
Measurements
460 x 330 mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286407.1
Summary
Etching, Three figures including a child in a box-chair carried between two horses, led by a man on foot, approaching around the bend of a path with zig-zags upwards between wooded hillsides, with a large tree on the right leaning diagonally to left and the valley in the distance below to right (after a drawing by Salvator Rosa dated 1759) by Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (1743-1779). One of two sepia coloured copper engravings on card, inscribed on margin 'Salvator Rosa delin/AG sculpt 1759'. A large tree crosses the centre of the picture, with a road curving up to its left. A man leads a horse carrying a sedan chair with another horse behind. Edges bound with black paper. One unmounted.
Marks and inscriptions
Salvator Rosa delin/AG sculpt 1759 (printed on margin)
Makers and roles
Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (1743 - 1779), engraver (printmaker) after Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), artist