Waggon wheels, tree trunk and beams
Soft-ground etching with chine collée
1811-1838-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
John Crome, painter and etcher, was born in Norwich, the son of a publican and weaver. From 1783 he was apprenticed to the house, coach and sign painter Francis Whistler. He completed the apprenticeship in 1790 and became one of the first artists to branch into picture restoration and cleaning. In 1792, he married Phoebe Berney, with whom he would have eleven children. Of the eleven, four died young and four became painters. Crome became Vice-President of the Norwich Society of Artists before being elected its President in 1808. He died at his home in Norwich, aged 52.
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Explore
- Places
- Norfolk
- Subjects
- wheel, landscape C19th, tree
- Materials & Techniques
- etching, soft-ground etching
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Details
- Artist
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John Crome (1768 - 1821)
- Title
- Waggon wheels, tree trunk and beams
- Date
- 1811-1838
- Medium
- Soft-ground etching with chine collée
- Dimensions
- height: 24.1 cm, width: 20.1 cm
- 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
- 211