The Landing of Aeneas in Italy

Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

Nothing is known about the early life of the landscape engraver James Mason. He is first mentioned by engraver and antiquary George Vertue, working for the publisher Arthur Pond in 1744, when he was probably in his early twenties. Mason later established himself as a popular engraver, co-publishing some of his own works. He produced several engravings after paintings by landscape and scene painter George Lambert, the majority of which are dated between 1745 and 1761. Mason engraved considerably less after 1780. He died in 1805 at his home in Winchester Row, Paddington, and was buried nearby at St Mary’s Church. He referred to himself as engraver and shopkeeper in his will, which suggests that he also ran a print shop.

Places

Mediterranean Sea, Italy

Subjects

rope, rowing boat, sailor (civilian), seascape/coastal scene, Neo-Classicism, sunset, shore, coat of arms, Greek mythology, harbour, ship

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Claude Gellee Lorrain (1600 - 1682)
James Mason (1710 - c.1780)

Title

The Landing of Aeneas in Italy

Date

published 24 June 1772

Medium

Engraving

Acquisition

Transferred from the British Museum, July 1946

Provenance

Collection of the British Museum; by whom transferred to the Ministry of Works in 1946

GAC number

237