River and Rural Scene

Prints and Drawings

1769

Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822)
after Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638-1709)

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Richard Earlom
Title: River and Rural Scene
Place: England (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1769
Medium: Mezzotint on paper
Dimensions: Image: 41.5 × 53 cm (16 3/8 × 20 7/8 in.); Plate: 45.5 × 53.2 cm (17 15/16 × 21 in.); Sheet: 46.8 × 54.2 cm (18 7/16 × 21 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Langdon Pearce
Reference Number: 1951.380
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