Girl and Pigs

by After Richard Westall

$650 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A charmingly observed rural scene, largely colour-printed. A fine example of a stipple-engraved coloured print based on one of Westall's charming watercolours. Westall was at his best in watercolour, and was the leader of a reform in figure-painting in this medium... The brilliancy of his colouring was considered novel and astonishing in his own day... A large number of Westall's rustic subjects were engraved, such as Rural Contemplation and Rural Music, by T. Gaugain, 1801;

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