John Sell Cotman (1782–1842)
“Ragland Castle, Monmouthshire”, 1813–1838, plate 24 from the series of forty-nine plates, “Liber
Studiorum”, published in 1838 by Henry George Bohn (1795/6–1884)
in London in "Liber Studiorum: A Series of Sketches and Studies by John
Sell Cotman, Esp."
Soft-ground etching with dot roulette (i.e. “a method
of printmaking in which a drawing is made on a sheet of paper on a soft etching
ground, pulled off, and the resulting design transferred to the plate by
etching” BM) on cream wove paper with wide margins as published.
Size: (sheet) 46.8 x 31.9 cm; (plate) 18.8 x 12.5 cm.
Inscribed on plate below the image: (left) "Ragland Castle, Monmouthshire"; (right)
"J.S.Cotman.”
Numbered on plate: (upper right corner) "24."
Popham 1922 317 (Arthur Ewart Popham 1922, "The
Etchings of John Sell Cotman." Print Collector's Quarterly, vol. 9, p. 270,
cat. no. 317).
The British Museum offers the following description of
this print:
“Plate 24. View of two towers of Raglan Castle,
overgrown with vegetation, and arched bridge over steep drop in foreground at
left” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1859-0528-176).
See also the descriptions offered by The Tate, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/cotman-ragland-castle-monmouthshire-t11510;
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/789440;
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2014.197.
Condition: faultless impression in pristine condition
(i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, losses, abrasions, stains, foxing or
signs of handling) with full margins as published.
I am selling this extraordinarily well preserved and
rare soft-ground etching by one of the acknowledged masters of the English
landscape, for a total cost of AU$320 (currently US$233.57/EUR196.85/GBP176.76 at
the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to
anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by
some countries.
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