Still-life with flowers

Still-life of an urn with flowers, fruits lying in foreground, a garden beyond; after Jan van Os.

Etching, 1816, signed and dated at the bottom, lettered in lower margin with production details: "I. Van Os" and "2.3 ½ by 2.10 3/8".

A fine impression on contemporary paper, with fine later hand colour, in good condition.

Elizabeth Byrne was a landscape painter & engraver, in Britain. Daughter of landscape-engraver William Byrne (1743-1805); sister of Letitia Byrne (1779-1849) and John Byrne (1786-1847).

This work is a part of the "Stafford Gallery" had as its full title: 'Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures in London: Arranged According to Schools and in Chronological Order with Remarks on Each Picture'. This collection was formed by the 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, augmented by George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland and housed at Cleveland House in London. It was opened to the public in 1806.

The publication was undertaken by W Y Ottley and P W Tomkins, issued in four volumes, 1810-1818, by Tomkins; Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme; J White & Co. and Cadell & Davies, with illustrations engraved by Tomkins, Fittler, Romney, Heath and others, from drawings by W M Craig.

The book also included plans of the thirteen rooms, showing the location of each picture.

Bibliografia

R K Engen, 'Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works', 1979