Antique HW Robbins Where Noble Elms Abound Cows Farmhouse Road Etching 34"

Description

Late 19th century hand colored etching titled "Where Noble Elms Abound," etched by Peter Moran after a painting by Horace Wolcott Robbins. Landscape of cows wandering on a country road by a red roofed farmhouse. Signed in plate P. Moran, lower left. Signed in plate HW Robbins NA 1889, lower right. Labeled on back of frame. White and gold beveled wood frame; no mat.

"Peter Moran (March 4, 1841 – November 9, 1914) was a British-born American painter and etcher. His siblings Thomas and Edward were also painters and his brother John was an important Philadelphia photographer. Peter Moran is best known as a printmaker during the etching revival of the 1880s. Peter Moran was born in Bolton, Lancashire, the youngest of Mary (née Higson) and Thomas Moran Sr. He was a child when his parents and six siblings settled in Kensington, a suburb of Philadelphia. Three younger siblings were born after the family settled in Pennsylvania. Moran began his career as an apprentice with the Philadelphia printing firm of Herline & Hensel and worked briefly as a lithographer. According to the United States Census of 1860, he also trained as a chair painter’s apprentice. Peter Moran learned easel painting from his older brothers Edward and Thomas and traveled to England in 1863 to see the animal paintings of Edwin Landseer (1802-73). In 1867, he married the Irish-born Emily Kelly (1841-1903). A painter in watercolor as well as oil, Moran specialized in bucolic eastern landscapes with animals as well as images of life in New Mexico. Recent research indicates his first visit to New Mexico occurred in 1880 rather than 1864, as previously believed.[3] [4] Moran is best known for his work in etching, and he was a leader in Philadelphia’s etching revival of the 1880s. The first exhibition of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers, held in the winter of 1882-83, included prints by him and by other members of his family. Moran’s wife Emily Kelley Moran was also an etcher and painter. Of the four artist brothers, Peter Moran was the most active in Philadelphia’s growing art world. He was a member at various times of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Society of Artists, and the Art Union of Philadelphia. In 1880, he founded the Philadelphia Society of Etchers with his brother-in-law Stephen James Ferris (1835-1915) and the artist Joseph Pennell (1857-1926). Moran served as president of the Society of Etchers until 1903. In 1887, he was a founding member of the Art Club of Philadelphia. Peter Moran also had a long career as a teacher. He began in 1866 as a lecturer at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art and Design). His brother Thomas and his brother-in-law Stephen Ferris had participated in a lecture series at the School of Design the previous year. Ferris continued his affiliation with the School of Design for nearly twenty-five years, teaching figure drawing and painting from live models and plaster casts of statues. Peter Moran’s teaching career lasted thirty years: after his start as a lecturer in 1866, he was hired full-time in 1872 and taught etching as well as landscape painting in oil and watercolor until 1896. Moran died on November 9, 1914. He was buried next to his wife in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania." (Wikipedia)

"Horace Wolcott Robbins (21 October 1842 – 1904) was an American landscape painter known for his watercolors. Horace Wolcott Robbins was born in Mobile, Alabama, on 21 October 1842. His father came from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, descended from the first settlers there, and his mother came from Norwich, Connecticut. The family moved to Baltimore, Maryland when Robbins was aged six. He studied at Newton University in Baltimore, where he was given drawing lessons by August Weidenbach, a landscape painter from Germany. In 1859 Robbins studied under James McDougal Hart in New York City. He graduated from Newton University in 1860 and set up his own studio. During the American Civil War (1861–65) he served in the 22nd New York Regiment at the Battle of Harpers Ferry in 1862. Horace Robbins was elected to the Century Association in 1863 and became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1864. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1862–64) and at the Boston Art Association and the Brooklyn Art Association. Hugh Bolton Jones studied under Robbins for a few months. In 1865 Robbins joined Frederic Edwin Church on a visit to Jamaica and the West Indies. He then traveled to England, the Netherlands and Paris, where he set up a studio and studied with Théodore Rousseau. He married Mary Phelps of Simsbury, Connecticut at the American Legation in Paris. He went on a sketching trip in Switzerland in 1866, spent more time in a studio in Paris, and returned to New York late in the fall of 1867. He settled into a routine of painting seven or eight landscapes each year. Soon after returning to America Robbins began spending his summers in the Farmington Valley in Connecticut, making paintings of the river and woods. He built a studio near that of his friend and teacher James Hart in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. He joined the American Watercolor Society, Artists' Fund Society and New York Etching Club. Robbins was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1878, and in 1882 became the Academy's recording secretary. He became a trustee of the New York School of Applied Design for Women and a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While continuing to paint, in 1890 Robbins attended Columbia Law School.[2] In 1892 he was admitted to the New York State Bar. Horace Wolcott Robbins died in 1904 in New York City." (Wikipedia)

Condition

Wear and distressing / marking / scuffing / finish loss to frame; tears, water damage / spotting / foxing to print.

Dimensions

33.5" x 1.25" x 24" (Width x Depth x Height)