ATTACK AND DEFENCE
£75.00
Original 1878 7 1/4 inch x 9 3/8 inch engraving titled ATTACK AND DEFENCE
Young men in 17th century dress, climbing a ladder to an upper storey window in a large house, while young women lean over the ledge and pelt them with flowers or rebuke them with their fans and an elderly woman wearing a veil and holding a crook approaches from an arched doorway in the right foreground.
Engraved by Lumb Stocks (1812 – 1892). An English engraver. In a long career he produced engravings from paintings by notable artists of the day.
After John Callcott Horsley (1817 – 1903). John Callcott Horsley RA, was an English Academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and designer of the first Christmas card. He was a member of the artist’s colony in Cranbrook.
Inscription below the image and title: From the picture in the collection of Charles T. Lucas Esq. Warnham Court, Sussex
Published in the Art Journal by J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., London.
Page size 12 3/8 inch x 9 1/4 inch
The engraving is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.
Availability: 1 in stock
