Chastity that burns Cupid's bow
| Reference: | S49858 |
| Author | William Wynne Ryland |
| Year: | 1762 |
| Measures: | 350 x 365 mm |
€225.00
| Reference: | S49858 |
| Author | William Wynne Ryland |
| Year: | 1762 |
| Measures: | 350 x 365 mm |
€225.00
Description
Chastity burning the arms of Cupid: Chastity crouched on the right over a fire where she burns Cupid's bow; Cupid upset, flying on the left.
After a drawing by Guercino.
Etching and mezzotint, 1764, lettered below the image with production details.
From Tome I of Charles Rogers 'A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings to which are annexed lives with explanatory and critical notes by Charles Rogers Esq. F.R.S. S.A.L. / Quantanus nobis denegatur diu viver relinquamus aliquid quo nos vixisse testemur. Plin. Lib. III.. Epist. 7 / Printed by J. Nicholls, Successor to Mr Bowyer & Sold by John Boydell, Engraver, No. 93, Cheapside. Benjamin White, at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street. Peter Molini, in Oxendon-Street, Hay-Market M.DCC.LXXVIII'.
The plates were engraved after drawings in major British collections, including Charles Rogers' own, and published in two volumes in London.
William Wynne Ryland (1732-1783) was a pioneer in the dotted manner or black manner technique. He studied printmaking in London and perfected his skills with Simon François Ravenet. In Paris he lived seven years and was a pupil of François Boucher for drawing and Jacques-Philippe Le Bas for engraving. Back in London he was appointed by George III of England as the king's engraver, with an allowance of £200 a year. In 1766 he was accepted as a member of the Society of Artists of Great Britain-an association that gave rise to the Royal Academy of Arts-where he exhibited his etchings. At the end of his career he abandoned classical hatch engraving and invented dotted manner engraving, which consists of composing each line with tiny dots. With this technique, which made an engraving look like a pencil drawing, he reproduced drawings by John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779) and Angelica Kauffmann.
A very good impression on contemporary laid paper, with margins, a light foxing, otherwise in good condition.
William Wynne Ryland (Londra 1732 - 1783)
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William Wynne Ryland was an English engraver, who pioneered stipple engraving and was executed for forgery. Ryland was born in London, the eldest of seven sons of Edward Ryland (died 1771), an engraver and copper-plate printer. He studied engraving under Ravenet in London, and, in Paris, drawing under François Boucher and engraving under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. After spending five years on the continent he returned to England, and having engraved portraits of George III and Lord Bute (after Ramsay), and a portrait of Queen Charlotte and the Princess Royal after Francis Cotes, R.A., he was appointed engraver to the king - a position that carried a salary of £200 per annum.
In 1766 he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and he exhibited with them and in the Royal Academy. In his later life Ryland abandoned line engraving, and introduced chalk-engraving, in which the line is composed of stippled dots, and in which he transcribed Mortimer's "King John Signing Magna Carta", and copied the drawings of the Old Masters and the works of Angelica Kauffman.
Ryland became prosperous, and seeking an investment, went into partnership with a pupil, Henry Bryer, putting his money into a print shop in Cornhill, London; the business went bankrupt in December 1771. After an interval, he resumed business as a print-seller in the Strand, but before long retired to a private residence at Knightsbridge.
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William Wynne Ryland (Londra 1732 - 1783)
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William Wynne Ryland was an English engraver, who pioneered stipple engraving and was executed for forgery. Ryland was born in London, the eldest of seven sons of Edward Ryland (died 1771), an engraver and copper-plate printer. He studied engraving under Ravenet in London, and, in Paris, drawing under François Boucher and engraving under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. After spending five years on the continent he returned to England, and having engraved portraits of George III and Lord Bute (after Ramsay), and a portrait of Queen Charlotte and the Princess Royal after Francis Cotes, R.A., he was appointed engraver to the king - a position that carried a salary of £200 per annum.
In 1766 he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and he exhibited with them and in the Royal Academy. In his later life Ryland abandoned line engraving, and introduced chalk-engraving, in which the line is composed of stippled dots, and in which he transcribed Mortimer's "King John Signing Magna Carta", and copied the drawings of the Old Masters and the works of Angelica Kauffman.
Ryland became prosperous, and seeking an investment, went into partnership with a pupil, Henry Bryer, putting his money into a print shop in Cornhill, London; the business went bankrupt in December 1771. After an interval, he resumed business as a print-seller in the Strand, but before long retired to a private residence at Knightsbridge.
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