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The Beautiful Fruit Gatherer 18th century English color mezzotint
1782Best.-Nr. 9006London: Robert Sayer and J Bennett 1782. Edition Unknown. Mounted on board at an early date. Good; vertical margins trimmed; colors are deep and solid; some bug damage along the blank lower border and minor surface rubbing. Print. Stencil hand and block printed color mezzotint meas. appx. 353 x 252 mm. A handsome decorative print depicting a woman in an elaborate garden collecting grapes. She is wearing a flowing white dress apron shawl and black hat adorned with flowers. Beside her is a basket of fruit. All are highlighted in hand-color differently applied i.e. stencil or brush work. The firm of Sayer and Bennett were a prominent business of mapmakers during the 18th century benefitting from Sayer's prolonged association with Thomas Jefferys whom he rescued from bankruptcy in 1766. See Worms British Map Engravers pp. 585-588; see also Carol Wax The Mezzotint - History and Technique for chapters on the history of technical developments and the marketplace in the 18th century. There is a similar figure of painted and decorated plaster in the garden of Antony House Cornwall UK. R[obert] Sayer and J Bennett unknown books
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