| Method | Etching with original hand colouring |
| Artist | George Garrard |
| Published | Pub: by G. Garrard, London, July 18.th 1799. |
| Dimensions | Image 155 x 320 mm, Plate 323 x 473 mm, Sheet 385 x 525 mm |
| Notes |
From George Garrard's A Description of the Different Varieties of Oxen, common in the British Isles [...](London: J. Smeeton, 1799 - 1814). George Garrard (1760 - 1826) was an English animal painter, engraver and printmaker. Garrard came from a family of artists, and could trace his descent back to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (c.1561/62 - 1636). He studied under Joseph Simpson and Sawrey Gilpin (whose eldest daughter he later married), before studying at the Royal Academy in 1781. In 1784 he painted View of a Brewhouse Yard which attracted the notice of Sir Joshua Reynolds. From 1795 Garrard also produced plaster models of cattle for the use of landscape painters. Through his petitioning of parliament this eventually led to the 1799 Models and Busts Act, the first British copyright law to provide protection for a medium other than print. In 1800 Garrard was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and in the same year he published A Description of the different varieties of Oxen common in the British Isles, embellished with engravings; being an accompaniment to a set of models of the improved breeds of Cattle, executed by George Garrard, upon an exact scale from nature, under the patronage of the Board of Agriculture. He exhibited in total 215 works at the Royal Academy, as well as others at the British Institution and the Society of British Artists. Boalch G2 Condition: Trimmed to plate mark on left margin of sheet. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £295.00 |
| Stock ID | 29357 |