The Woodman at Labor; The Woodman's Repast

by After Charles Turner, Joseph Barney

$1,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A fine pair of images of the rural life of a wood-cutter and his family. Charles Turner is known chiefly as a mezzotint engraver: an area in which he gained a well-deserved reputation for excellence. His best known work in this field was for J.M.W. Turner's 'Liber Studiorum'. The present print supports the assertion that he 'was a also good original draughtsman... He engraved from his own drawings portraits of J. M. W. Turner, Michael Faraday, William Kitchiner, Joseph

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