Rustic Figures: Two Boys
Thomas Barker
1801
- Medium
- lithograph hand-colored with brown wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 26.3 x 18.6 cm (10 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.); Image: 21.8 x 14.6 cm (8 9/16 x 5 3/4 in.); Secondary Support: 23.5 x 15.7 cm (9 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
England, early 19th Century
About
Lithography was invented in Germany in 1798 as a commercial technique but soon spread to England where it was quickly adopted by artists. This is one of the very earliest artist's lithographs which is very welcome in our fine collection of early lithography.
![Forty Lithographic Impressions from Drawings of Landscape Scenery by Thomas Barker, Selected from His Studies of Rustic Figures after Nature: [Old Woman in Cloak with Clasped Hands]](https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.628/2016.628_web.jpg)
![Figures in a Landscape [recto]](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/cbec90e8-34de-4066-973f-14455437c04a/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![Figures in a Landscape [verso]](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/d0428f6c-d9d1-4a18-b61e-196a0f7a55c1/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
