Code: 11169
Dimensions:
"Cottager"
Etching and stipple engraving, printed in colours
Taken from an unidentified early French edition of James Thomson's "Spring"
Published in Paris by Zanna
French, Circa 1801
In an attractively distressed, Georgian period pearwood frame
Measures:-
25.5 cm x 17 cm (Framed)
Lettered with the title "Cottager" / "Thomson's Spring" / "A Paris chez Vz.o Zanna & Compy".
A sweet image taken from an unidentified early 19th Century French edition of "Spring" from "The Seasons" by the Scottish poet James Thomson (1700-1748). First published in 1730 "The Seasons" was translated into French by the naturalist and author Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze (1753-1835) in 1801.
