| Method | Etching |
| Artist | Richard Gaywood after Francis Barlow |
| Published | [London, c.1660] |
| Dimensions | Image & Plate 140 x 202 mm, Sheet 209 x 317 mm |
| Notes |
Plate 2 from Animals After Various Artists (c.1660), a collection of thirteen etchings made and published by Richard Gaywood. According to the British Museum the composition is based on Francis Barlow's drawings and studies for his Aesop's Fables series. The fox on the wall appears in Barlow's design for Fable LX, The Goat in the Well; and the wolf in lower centre appears in Fable XV, The Wolf and Goat. Richard Gaywood was a British printmaker and publisher active between 1644 and 1680. Trained by Wenceslaus Hollar, Gaywood was one of the most prolific etchers of his day. During the 1650s he took over from Hollar as the principal supplier of portrait etchings to the London trade. A friend of Francis Barlow, Gaywood produced a large number of etchings of birds and animals after him. They also worked together on a large etching after Titian's Venus and the Organist, which was dedicated to John Evelyn. Although Gaywood published plates himself, much of what he produced was made for the publisher Peter Stent. Francis Barlow (1626-1704) was an accomplished English painter, etcher, and book illustrator. He was the leading bird and animal artist in seventeenth-century England. Because of this talent, it is only fitting that Barlow produced a set of illustrations for Aesop's Fables. Barlow's edition, published in 1666, is one of his best-known works. Hollstein 47-58 (after Pieter van Avont), New Hollstein 894 (Hollar; copy in reverse), Pennington 2046 (copy in reverse) Condition: Crease in lower centre of image and sheet, small tears to bottom margin of sheet. Mark in right margin of sheet. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £95.00 |
| Stock ID | 33466 |