A Visit to the Grandmother

by After James Northcote, R. A.

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A charming image of a family duty and pleasure, ably engraved by one of the greatest mezzotinters of his day. Northcote, who worked as pupil and assistant to Sir Joshua Reynolds for five years from 1771, produced works in a number of genres: portraits, historical and subject pictures, animal painting and morally instructive scenes. The present image shows two young fashionably-dressed young ladies sitting with their grandmother. One completes some sewing that her

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