Description
Antique hand-pulled copper plate etching with drypoint on laid paper by Richard Samuel Chattock (English 1825-1906). This piece is called "Chagford Bridge" & it is signed in the plate lower left. This piece was printed in 1883 & it comes with a COA. The frame measures 20 1/2" x 17" & the image measures 11 1/4" x 7 1/2". Richard Samuel Chattock (1825 - 1906) was printmaker, painter & etcher born in Solihull (then in Warwickshire, now in the West Midlands), England. His father was a solicitor & after studying at Rugby School he too entered the legal profession. However, in the late 1950s he began following his interest in art, exhibiting his work in the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. From 1869 to 1891, he exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts. Chattock often painted rural scenes & architectural subjects. in 1872, he completed his most famous works, sixteen etchings that depict the industrial landscape of the Black Country considered an unusual choice for artists. For each etching, Chattock gave a description of what is being portrayed, & often how the objects in the etchings were used in the industry. While these descriptions tell of the "intense desolation" of the Black Country, due to an industry that "ransacked [its] depths", Chattock is often focused on what he calls "single picturesqueness, if not beauty". in 1876 & 1881 he became a member of the RBSA & Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers respectively & he published a manual for other artists entitled Practical Notes on Etchings in 1883. Richard Samuel Chattock | English 1825-1906 Antique Copper Plate Etching Drypoint Coa Chagford Bridge 1883
