FRAMED 1800s Edward William Cooke Engraving "Venice - The Arrival" SIGNED COA
$ 173.72
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Four Centuries of the world's finest artists from our collection to yours Thank you for visiting... Artist: Edward William Cooke (English, 1811 – 1880) Title: Venice - The Arrival Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original by the master engraver Charles Cousen (British, c.1819 - 1889). Signature: Signed in the plate. Year: 1868 Condition: Excellent Dimensions: Image Size 6 1/4 x 11 inches. Framed dimensions: Approximately 15 x 20 inches. Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. Additional notes: This is not a modern print. This engraving is more than 150 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. Extra Information : View in a harbour, some gondolas in the foreground approaching towards a three-masted fleet with sails down in the middle distance, other gondolas mooring at a quay in the left foreground, another fleet with various flags firing in the left background in front of the shore. Artist Biography: Edward William Cooke was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener. Cooke was born in Pentonville, London, the son of well-known line engraver George Cooke; his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778–1855), was also a line engraver of note, and Edward was raised in the company of artists. He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for marine subjects (in special in sailing ships) and published his "Shipping and Craft" – a series of accomplished engravings – when he was 18, in 1829. He benefited from the advice of many of his father's associates, notably Clarkson Stanfield (whose principal marine follower he became) and David Roberts. Cooke began painting in oils in 1833, took formal lessons from James Stark in 1834 and first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution in 1835, by which time his style was essentially formed. View of St. Agnes, Edward William Cooke He went on to travel and paint with great industry at home and abroad, indulging his love of the 17th-century Dutch marine artists with a visit to the Netherlands in 1837. He returned regularly over the next 23 years, studying the effects of the coastal landscape and light, as well as the works of the country's Old Masters, resulting in highly successful paintings. These included 'Beaching a Pink at Scheveningen' (National Maritime Museum, London), which he exhibited in 1855 at the Royal Academy, of which he was an Associate from 1851. He went on to travel in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa and, above all, to Venice. In 1858, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician. Cooke was "particularly attracted by the Isle of Wight, and on his formative visit of 1835 he made a thorough study of its fishing boats and lobster pots; above all he delighted in the beaches strewn with rocks of various kinds, fishing tackle, breakwaters and small timber-propped jetties." He also had serious natural history and geological interests, being a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Fellow of the Geological Society and Fellow of the Zoological Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries. In the 1840s he helped his friend, the horticulturist, James Bateman fit out and design the gardens at Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, in particular the orchids and rhododendrons. His geological interests in particular led to his election as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863 and he became a Royal Academician the following year. In 1842 John Edward Gray named a species of boa, Corallus cookii, in Cooke's honor. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described Framing Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. Please contact us for pricing. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. Shipping Packages are shipped the next business day after confirmed payment is received. If you are making multiple purchases, please request an invoice so that we may combine shipping charges for you. Guarantee We guarantee all our listings to be 100% as described Returns Returns are accepted up to fourteen days after receiving your purchase. Buyer accepts responsibility for any additional shipping charges. | Click here for HOT DEALS | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS |
This seller was superb across all areas. The shipping was phenomenal, custom built and the art well protected. The art itself is thought provoking, telling a story of who we are as people in a unique way, which is why I purchased the art. The woodcut prints were of high quality, with excellent COA and documentation of their history and provenance. And the framing was as if they were newly framed, matching the framing on other two prints I purchased. I would highly recommend this seller.
Great transaction! Seller worked with me to refund unneeded shipping costs and packed these two photos (two separate lots) better than I think anything I've ever bought on ebay has been packed. The photos themselves are gorgeous and beautifully framed in a way that perfectly complements the tones of the photos. They are as described, but even better in person. With the framing included they're an excellent value. A homerun transaction in all respects.
Very lovely engraving and was as described. It came framed which made the shipping quite expensive. Seller also offered to send the engraving unframed but I thought that it would be easier and cheaper to just have seller frame it. Sadly, the frame chipped during shipping even though seller had packaged it very well so I will have to get it reframed in the future. My advice is to ask seller to send without a frame.
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