Children Fishing; Children Gathering Black-Berries

by Philip after George Morland Dawe, c.

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

A pair of beautiful mezzotints after Morland, the master of English genre painting. One interesting aspect of the early Romantic Period is the discovery of children, not in terms of what they would become, but as they were. It was the beginning of the idealization of childhood, most evident in Romantic poetry. All the great English genre artists attempted to make scenes of childhood that captured particularly sense the wonder felt then and later lost. This group of quite

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