About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Richard Earlom
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Title
- River and Rural Scene
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Origin
- England
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Date
- Made 1769
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Medium
- Mezzotint on paper
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Dimensions
- 415 × 530 mm (image); 455 × 532 mm (plate); 468 × 542 mm (sheet)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Langdon Pearce
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Reference Number
- 1951.380
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/76103/manifest.json
Extended information about this artwork
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