The Threshing Barn. Etching by listed artist Richard Samuel Chattock RE, 1886

Description: Original etching by the listed printmaker Richard Samuel Chattock (1825 - 1906), created in 1886. Titled "The Barn Door”, depicting a farm worker, with a threshing flail in hand, working in a threshing barn, with chickens outside in the yard taking advantage of any grains that come their way.Unsigned, but inscribed on the lower edge of the sheet "The Barn Door, R. S. Chattock, 1886, 1st state" - the finished plate has more tonal variation than this early example.Etching, printed in black ink on buff tone wove paper. In a modern gilt wood frame with double mount.Plate size 9.5cm x 14.5cm, frame size 24.5cm x 28.5cm.Print in good original condition, some light age toning around the mount line and a single foxing spot in the left margin (see photos). Frame and mount in clean condition (see photos). Delivered ready to hang.Comes with our Certificate of Authenticity - guaranteed authentic and original.Overseas buyers please see delivery charges to your location through the eBay Global Shipping Program. Richard Samuel Chattock RE, RBSA 1825 – 1906 English printmaker, painter and etcher.Chattock was born on 23rd August 1825 in Solihull (then in Warwickshire), the third son of Thomas Chattock, a solicitor. After studying at Rugby School, he too entered the legal profession. However, in the late 1850s he began following his interest in art, exhibiting his work in the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. From 1869 to 1891, he exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts.Chattock often painted rural scenes and architectural subjects. In 1872, he completed his most famous works, sixteen etchings that depict the industrial landscape of the Black Country considered an unusual choice for artists. For each etching, Chattock gave a description of what is being portrayed, and often how the objects in the etchings were used in the industry. While these descriptions tell of the "intense desolation" of the Black Country, due to an industry that "ransacked [its] depths", Chattock is often focused on what he calls "single picturesqueness, if not beauty." In 1876 and 1881, he became a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and Royal Society of Painter- Etchers and Engravers respectively. He published a manual for other artists entitled Practical Notes on Etchings in 1883. He died at St Vincent's Hall, Clifton, Bristol, age 81.

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Location: Leyburn

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