Price: $950.00
SKU: 88483
ARTIST: Edward Penny
PUBLISHER: Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whitman, No.53, Fleet Street, London.
MEDIUM: Mezzotint,
DATE: 1794.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 22 x 17 15/16" (55.7 x 45.5 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Painted by Edwd. Penny, professor of painting to the Royal Academy. R. Sayer Prefecit. Engraved by Richd. Houston. A blacksmith scene. In the title line is an excerpt from the Shakespearean play "King John", act IV, scene IV, reading, "I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, / The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, / With open mouth swallowing a taylor's news."
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Fair condition with overall toning. Two marginal tears, one enters the image by 3/8".and soft creasing in the upper image area.
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