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Original steel engraving with an evening landscape in the Italian manner: a great pine outlined against the hillside, the villa among cypresses at the right and the valley sunk in shadow beyond. Engraved by W. J. Taylor after the painting by Richard Wilson; lettered below, A Summer\'s Evening, with the imprint London: George Virtue.
Richard Wilson (1714-1782) was the founder of classical landscape in British painting, and his Roman-inspired views marked the whole school that came after him.
Medium: Steel engraving.
Artist / after: After the painting by Richard Wilson.
Engraver: W. J. Taylor.
Date: 1849.
Source: Published by George Virtue, London.
Condition: Good. Clean paper, with light toning and a few isolated specks in the margins.
