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River and Rural Scene
Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)LinkedCulture matchlcp-e0d5b6e59a0c
- Date
- 1769
- Medium
- Mezzotint on paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 76103
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The English printmaker Richard Earlom produced multiple mezzotints of Old Master works, including this scene by the 17th-century Dutch painter Meindert Hobbema. Characteristic of Hobbema’s style is the shaded foreground, with occasional flickers of light that lengthen the shadows of figures and cows and contrast with an area of warm light in the background. Hobbema’s works show a desire to present landscape as an idyllic environment, ordered and regulated by man, an idea that spoke to Earlom, as is clear in many of his own orderly landscapes and market scenes.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Langdon Pearse
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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- 17th-century Northern European animal studies
A collection of prints and prints-based works from the Dutch, Flemish, and Northern European traditions of the 17th century depicting domestic animals and rural pastoral scenes, primarily created through etching and engr
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