George Morland; his life and works . GEORGE MORI,AND AT HIS the engraving by jf. R. Smith, 180$.. RUSTIC HMPI^ the engraving by y. R. Smith. MORLANDS ENGRAVERS 113 learned from his friend, and was compelled to relinquishthe practice of the art in which he was so successful. Itis, however, to him that we owe some of the finestof the mezzotints after Morland, and, as he was themaster of both James and William Ward, lovers of fineprints owe a still further debt of gratitude to him. Rather more than a dozen plates after Morland wereengraved by Samuel William Reynolds, who iss
George Morland; his life and works . GEORGE MORI,AND AT HIS the engraving by jf. R. Smith, 180$.. RUSTIC HMPI^ the engraving by y. R. Smith. MORLANDS ENGRAVERS 113 learned from his friend, and was compelled to relinquishthe practice of the art in which he was so successful. Itis, however, to him that we owe some of the finestof the mezzotints after Morland, and, as he was themaster of both James and William Ward, lovers of fineprints owe a still further debt of gratitude to him. Rather more than a dozen plates after Morland wereengraved by Samuel William Reynolds, who issued thewonderful series of three hundred and fifty-seven mezzo-tints after all the then known paintings by Sir JoshuaReynolds, and will also be ever remembered by reason ofthe fact that the illustrious David Lucas was his earliest work bearing the name of S. W. Reynolds isthe Rustic Ballad, engraved in 1795. This was followedby The Bear Hunt and The Kennel, in 1796; Playing at Dominoes and Playing with a Monkey,in 1797; A Land Storm, in 1798; Setters, in 1799;The Fishermans Dog, The Butcher,
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