| Method | Etching |
| Artist | Lady Louisa Augusta Greville after Pietro Francesco Cittadini |
| Published | 1759 |
| Dimensions | Image 201 x 298 mm, Plate 212 x 313 mm, Sheet 284 x 380 mm |
| Notes |
An etching after Pietre Francesco Cittadini depicting three peasants in the left foreground one kneeling holding a bundle, one standing handing a bundle to another, with a donkey with a saddle cloth laying in wait. A figure on horse back in the background going down a winding path, all set in front a river flowing past trees. Signed in the plate with the monogram "LAG 1759." Lady Louisa Augusta Greville was the eldest child of Francis Greville, Baron Brooke, Earl Brooke from 1746 and created 1st Earl of Warwick in 1759. She married William Churchill of Henbury, Dorset, in 1770, with whom she had a son, but she died in 1779 (Registers of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset). Churchill died in 1808, survived by his second wife, 'a relict of the Earl of Stafford' (The Gentleman's Magazine, July 1808, and The Athenaeum, September 1808). Her earliest dated print was made in 1757, the last 1770, the year she married. Most are after Rosa and Guercino, but there is at least one view of the family's seat, Warwick Castle, made in 1757 and of her own invention. She was thrice awarded medals for her drawings at the Society of Arts, in 1758, 1759 and 1760, and exhibited a landscape etching after Rosa at the Free Society in 1762. One of Louisa's brothers was the Hon. Charles Greville (1749-1809) who played a significant role in the development of aquatint, and whose sometime mistress, Emma Lyon (Hart), was passed on to and became the wife of his uncle, Sir William Hamilton before becoming in turn the mistress of Horatio Nelson. Her niece Lady Augusta Sophia Greville married Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford, the great collector of Rembrandt's etchings, and her nephew Henry Greville, 3rd Earl of Warwick, contributed a lithograph to André's Specimens of Polyautography. (Biography courtesy of Nicholas Stogdon). Pietro Francesco Cittadini (1616-1681) was an Italian Baroque painter, born in Milan. He studied with Daniele Crespi and later with Guido Reni in Bologna. He remained mainly active in Bologna, but was influenced by some contemporary Venetian painters such as Pietro Testa and Pier Francesco Mola. Condition: Excellent impression with good margins. Annotated in pencil in margin, "Lady Louisa Augusta Greville, Daughter of the Earl of Warwick," not affecting the image. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £120.00 |
| Stock ID | 46700 |