Artist:  PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (British, 1834 - 1894)

Title:   "Oak and Poplars" - 1856

Medium:   Original copper-plate Etching

Signature:  Signed and dated by the Artist in the plate, LR

Edition:  Unknown publication size

Provenance:   Hatay Stratton Fine Art, Northampton, Massachusettes, with dealer's notations in pencil inside matting.

About the Artist:  PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (10 September 1834 – 4 November 1894) was a British artist, art critic, teacher, and author. He was a keen advocate of contemporary printmaking and most of his writings concern the graphic arts.  Discovering after a time that he was more suited to art criticism and printmaking than painting, he moved to Sens and later to Autun, where he produced his Painter's Camp in the Highlands (1863), which was very successful and prepared the way for his standard work on Etching and Etchers in 1866. In 1867, he published Contemporary French Painters, and in 1868 a continuation, Painting in France after the Decline of Classicism.